Author: Frank Phillips
Date: 05:25:27 07/27/03
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On July 27, 2003 at 06:41:28, martin fierz wrote: >hmm, i'm feeling a bit stupid, perhaps somebody can help me: i want to detect >when there is input for my engine, but i'm doing something wrong. functions like >getc() don't return if there is no input, and the function kbhit() which works >fine in console mode doesn't seem to work when the engine is started by a GUI. >what function can i use to check whether there is input at stdin? > >cheers > martin If your using GCC and having problem with xboard you might try setbuf(stdin, NULL); I spent a half day yesterday reminding myself I had taken this out :-( The Intel compiler seem to manage without it - at least for my prog. Frank
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