Oliver J. Enders wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Just wanted to let you know. You are awesome! Thanks for having your > kbhit program on the web (in response to someone elses question two > years ago). It sure made my day. I've been trying to figure out how to > read in characters under Linux. ...
I can't take any credit. In fact, I probably should've given more pointers (which is why I'm taking this opportunity to CC the list I originally posted to). If you have a chance, check out the book "Beginning Linux Programming" by Neil Matthew and Richard Stones. It's Wrox Press, ISBN 1-874416-68-0 (1st ed) ISBN 1-861002-97-1 (2nd ed). You'll find many great pointers for developing on Linux, including the original version of the code I parapharsed for the list. The book is an *excellent* introduction to linux programming, and I've used it many times. I'm glad the code was useful. But thank Unix and Neil and Rick. :) Ideally, we'd like to see if you can write your app so that it doesn't use kbhit to busy-wait on an event. E.g., use Cbreak mode in curses instead, or simply use tcgetattr and tcsetattr with appropriate settings. It's not too bad with a good book (or man page for that matter). :) The code is GPL'd by Wrox press btw. Happy coding. -- Mike Brownlow http://www.wsmake.org/~mike/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1024D/8AA6EAFD 3861 96B3 EEA2 285C BE23 F706 3E1E EBB2 8AA6 EAFD "Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins." Pr10:12
