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Subject: Re: polling stdin

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 08:48:22 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

I don't think there is a C solution that is portable. In C++ you can do
cin.rdbuf()->in_avail(), but that only deals with the buffer, and there still
may be input available from the "file" (standard input). I think the closest
thing to a portable solution is to use a portable threading library and just
have a seperate input thread.



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