On 8/3/2012 3:33 PM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a native Windows app that is run from bash (which is in turn run > in a standard Cygwin terminal window, mintty). The application's code uses > kbhit() to check whether input is available from the user -- but it looks > like kbhit() never indicates any input (when keys are getting pressed). > The app works just fine if started directly from CMD.EXE. > > Is that the expected behavior?
mintty is not a real Windows console, so programs that try to access the console directly (like your kbhit-using program) won't work. Try running your program under the "conin" program, or run bash inside a console window.
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