PDcurses: kbhit()

[IWishIKnew]

I managed to successfully install PDcurses, and am now faced with an interesting problem:

getch() is defined by curses, so no problem.

kbhit() is not used with curses, so... I'm stuck...

I want to have the functionality I had with conio.h, and I assume that there must be a substitute for kbhit(), since they emplemented getch() in the header.

Thanks for your help...

PS: this is because I want to clear the getch() stream. Do I need to clear the stream with curses? Also, the sbstitute for kbhit() would be nice for future reference, even if I don't need to clear the stream...

[Dy7SLyTq]

a) getch() is implemented in curses like a lot of things. its not taken from conio.

b) if you really want it, i would make your own or...
c)use what curses has provided and use the multiple functions its provided for more functionality

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/helloworld.html

it uses ncurses but if i remember correctly pd curses is just the windows equiv

[IWishIKnew]

Will Ncurses getch() keep getting stuff from the buffer like the one from conio?

Ex: I press 'n' twice, and it regesters it, but with the conio version, it will get the second 'n' upon the next call, without user input.

[Dy7SLyTq]

yeah thats how input functions work

[IWishIKnew]

How can I flush the buffer then?

I used to do it like this:

while(_kbhit())
{
    _getch();
}

[Dy7SLyTq]

i dont know actually. i use c++ now and never ran into that when writing c

[IWishIKnew]

... you never had getch() skip the input prompt and just grab, from the buffer, the last character pressed??

[Dy7SLyTq]

no because i either used scanf or unbuffered input

[IWishIKnew]

ooo... thanks for the help.

BTW, do you use PDcurses??

[Dy7SLyTq]

not pd. i use ncurses on linux, but if im doing stuff windows ill either use the sdl, boost, or win32 api

[IWishIKnew]

hmm... I use boost.

Does boost have similar functions to curses?

[Dy7SLyTq]

no... i believe in the heard but not seen paradigm from unix. the console program provides no interface unless there is an error. boost and *curses are two very different things. in this time and age i dont recommend building interfaces on a console. instead learn guis