Re: Determining from buffer whether a button has been pressed

[Jim P. <ji...@jt...>]

> I am working on a C/C++ program that reads from a Packard Bell IR 
> remote.  What I want to do is to be able to query the IR buffer and 
> determine whether a button has been pressed, and if so, act 
> accordingly.  What I don't want to do is do a wait-for-button-press as my 
> program is currently coded, but I want the program to go on if there is no 
> button pressed.
> 
> What's the easiest way to do this?

select(2) and poll(2) will both return immediately if given a timeout
of 0; use one of them to see if there's any data to be read on the
socket.

-jim