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Subject: Re: polling stdin

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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