Subj : Input without Carriage Return (Enter)
To   : Jon Justvig
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Aug 07 2009 09:14 am

  Re: Input without Carriage Return (Enter)
  By: Jon Justvig to Nightfox on Fri Aug 07 2009 06:43:49

 >  > Hmmm...you don't suppose nCurses also includes normal color ANSi as well?
 >  > Right now my code does not have any color in it.  If so, I could tolerate
 >  > clear screens as long as it doesn't interfere with game play.

nCurses can do color, but as far as I know, it doesn't output ANSI codes, 
unfortunately.

 >  >  > I imagine there must be some C or C++ function in Linux that does what
 >  >  > want to do.

 >  > I'm hoping there is.  I used the header, windows.h, I believe, but, it wo
 >  > not work with linux obviously and I wanted the code to be portable to bot
 >  > dos and linux.  So, I've been looking around. I'll be glad when I start

C and C++ are kinda tough to work with sometimes because they were meant to 
be portable languages, yet there are things not in their standard libraries 
that would be nice to do - like being able to input just 1 character without 
the user having to press Enter.  Also, part of what I've read about C and C++ 
is that since they were meant to be portable, the designers left out features 
that aren't common on all platforms; thus, it doesn't include a GUI library, 
for example, because not all systems have a GUI OS.  Thus, there are several 
different GUI libraries to choose from if you want to develop a GUI app, and 
some GUI libraries limit you to just one platform, while others are 
multi-platform, and of course, it isn't all universal. :)

Nightfox


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