Input event loop in a console application

Question

I'm trying to make a little console application that is able to deal with keystrokes as events. What I need is mostly the ability to get the keystrokes and be able to do something with them without dealing with the typical stdin reading functions.

I tried to check the code of programs like mplayer, which implement this (for stopping the play, for example), but I can't get to the core of this with such a big code base.

Thanks

Answer 1

You could use the ncurses family of functions 'getch' as shown in the link, here's another link that will be of help to you, by the way, it should be pointed out, ncurses is platform portable so you should be pretty ok with it if you decide to re-target to another platform which is a big plus...