Responding to keypress events in Turbo C

S Kinsey

CBuilder Developer

Responding to keypress events in Turbo C

2005-03-01 03:12:30 AM
cppbuilder113
Hello
I have written a games program on my palmtop, using C and the Palm API
functions, and want to use Turbo C to compile the program into a windows
console program. Unfortunately I can't find any suitable header files in
Turbo C for event-driven code.
Does anyone know of instructions that will do 'getch()' within a certain
time frame, for instance? Are there any instructions that will return true
if a new character has been entered on the keyboard? Do I have to use the
Windows 98 API functions, and if so which ones do I use? The Microsoft
Development Network seems to keep quiet about historical operating system
functions!
Thank you
Simon.

Bob Gonder

CBuilder Developer

2005-03-01 05:08:09 AM

Re:Responding to keypress events in Turbo C

S Kinsey wrote:

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console program. Unfortunately I can't find any suitable header files in
Does anyone know of instructions that will do 'getch()' within a certain
time frame, for instance? Are there any instructions that will return true
if a new character has been entered on the keyboard? Do I have to use the
<conio.h>

if( kbhit() )
c = getch();

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Windows 98 API functions, and if so which ones do I use? The Microsoft
<windows.h>

GetNumberOfConsoleInputEvents(stdin, &written);
if( 0 == written )
continue;
ReadConsoleInput(stdin, &input_record, 1, &written) )