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From: tris@alzabo.uucp (Tris Orendorff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Keypressed exists?
Message-ID: <1990Feb10.190053.15413@alzabo.uucp>
Date: 10 Feb 90 19:00:53 GMT
References: <RON.90Feb3151312@clarity.Princeton.EDU>
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ron@clarity.Princeton.EDU (Ronald Beekelaar) writes:

>Hi

>  I have a very simple question, although I can't find the answer myself. How
>do you quietly test whether any key was pressed on the keyboard? I want to
>write a function that waits 10 seconds, if any key had been pressed, but
>doesn't wait at all, if none was pressed. 

In Microsoft C V5.1 you can use the functions kbhit () and getch ().
See section 4.8.3 in the run-time library reference book.


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				Sincerely Yours
				Tris Orendorff
				tris@alzabo.uucp
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