Just starting out

[Sean Kelly]

There's a call like this but it's nonstandard. getch() maybe?

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On Oct 17, 2011, at 2:54 PM, "Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote:

> "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. 
> 
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