Just starting out

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jesse Phillips" <jessekphillips+d at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:j78djv$1sr3$1 at digitalmars.com...
> On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:49:01 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>
>>
>> One thing I'd been thinking of adding to mine was an alternate function
>> that just waited for a single keystroke (rather than a line of text +
>> Enter). I think I once had it working on Tango, IIRC, but then I
>> switched to D2/Phobos and couldn't figure out how to use Phobos to wait
>> for a single keystroke w/o then waiting for Enter.
>
> There isn't a C call to do something like this. In windows you can make a
> call to system("pause"), but that doesn't provide custom text, isn't
> cross platform, and apparently if you close the terminal it will start
> executing code for the time it takes to shut down (i.e. unpause).
>
> Linux you have to pull out an curses trick to manipulate the terminal I
> believe, also not cross platform. It would be nice to get.

What I meant was to also retreive the key pressed. But it sounds like that 
would still have the same problem.