checking keyboard without waiting for key?

[Anonymous]

Sorry for this amount of questions!

What I'm really trying to do is checking if the user has pressed a key without waiting for him to press a key. That's why I don't want to use the standard function "getc". If not necessary I would prefer not to use too much additional stuff like Windows API, ...
Isn't there a way just using standard C libraries or DOS or BIOS functions?
(I'm programing on and for a Windows98 System.)

Thanks for answers!

[Nobody/Anonymous]

>Isn't there a way just using standard C libraries or DOS or BIOS functions?

No

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Do you mean for console?
<b>void</b> kbhit(<b>void</b>);
will do the trick.
It instantly checks for a key, which you can retrieve with <b>void</b> getch(<b>void</b>);
They are in conio.h but for some reason you
need to use conio_mingw.h with Dev-C++ and Mingw.

This prog seems to work better when compiled with Borland  (and its conio.h)...

Tom vC
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#include <stdio.h>
#include <conio_mingw.h>
#include <time.h>

main() {

  int keyhold, i = 0;
  clock_t start, end;
  double fps = CLK_TCK / 5;
  /* 5 is the frames per second */

  end = clock();

  /* loop runs for 10 seconds */
  for(i = 1; i < 50; i++) {
    start = clock();
    while( (end - start) / fps < 1) {
      if(kbhit() != 0) {
        keyhold = getch();
        putch(keyhold);
      }
    end = clock();
    }
    putch(1);
  }
  return(0);
}

[Nobody/Anonymous]

You might also want to #include <conio.c>
to get full conio.h funcionality.

Tom vC

conio.<b>c</b>

Yes, I know (now) HTML doesn't work here.
I only glanced at the red text as the bottom.