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Subject: Re: polling stdin

Author: martin fierz

Date: 02:15:08 07/28/03

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On July 28, 2003 at 02:03:18, Christophe Drieu wrote:

>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
>
>Just create a thread for input.

creating a thread is rather non-portable... i'd like a simple C solution that is
platform-independent.

cheers
  martin



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