kbhit & delay

[mlara]

Hello. I have a problem with a little c program. I have the Borland C++ 5.5.1 compiler for Win32, and I don't know how do a 'delay'. Also I don't know what function could be equal or similar to kbhit().

Thanks, for your help.

 

[juhigarg]

I am not aware of the function kbhit but for delay you can use a do loop.

 

[2ffat]

Why can't you use kbhit? My help files indicate that it should work in Win32. For example,

while (!kbhit()) /* do nothing */ ;

should wait until someone hits a key. James P. Cottingham

I am the Unknown lead by the Unknowing.
I have done so much with so little
for so long that I am now qualified
to do anything with nothing.

 

[mlara]

Ok, that is ok, but I would want know a function that was compatible with Linux.

Thanks you.

 

[Guest_imported]

try getch instead... but anyhow, you must include conio.h or unistd.h

then the kbhit or getch should work just type this in any function:

getch(); or kbhit();

 

[Themuppeteer]

when I want a delay in Linux, I use e.g. sleep(10) //10 sec sleep.

 

[mlara]

Ok, and where is the sleep function declared? And this function make use of CPU clock?

 

[Themuppeteer]

For the sleep function u need to #include <unistd.h>
I'm not sure if it uses the CPU clock or not, but I don't think so... why? cause I've looked into a clock program and there they don't use sleep(1) to wait a second.

Hope this helps... Don't eat yellow snow...

 

[Themuppeteer]

Look what I found on the net!

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/IO-Port-Programming-4.html

this should contain all the information you need... The Muppeteer.



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