On 9 Oct 2005, at 10:30, William Chops Westfield wrote:
> I for one was wondering whether how you thought "working" was defined
> when the window running that program didn't have the focus (wasn't
> the active window.)
>
> IMO, if this is for a class, you probably ought to figure out the  
> proper
> windows APIs to do what you had in mind (unless it's not a windows
> programming class at all.)  Windows programming uses a rather  
> different
> methodology than DOS programming, even if many DOS programs will  
> run OK
> in a windows environment.  (OTOH, this makes the program MUCH more
> complicated...)

I think he said he's writing a command line tool in which case it  
appears from KB article I posted a link to that the approved function  
name is _kbhit() - but apart from that (and the warnings of course)  
he's doing the right thing.

-- 
Andy Armstrong, hexten.net

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