Re: [G++ n00b] getche() in G++ ?

[Stefan Kristensen]

> > Hello boys and girls.
>
> Some of us here are quite old :-(

How about 'experienced'? ;-)


> > I'm refreshing my C++ 
>
> For that, I recomment abandoning your old school book, and getting
> excellent, modern and concise "Accelerated C++":

I have ordered it from the local library.


> > My old school book has an example that uses getche(), which I
>
> getchar() is close, but not exactly equivalent.
> Reading keyboard *immediately* (without waiting for carriage return)
> is rather tricky on UNIX.

Ok. I can live with getchar().

I use fgets() to read a string, but don't want to pertain the newline 
charcter. In the old days, I used flushall(), but that doesn't seem to 
be valid either. What do I do here?


> > And while we are at it: The same question for clrscr() ;-)
>
> That's also quite tricky, because there is no 'screen' that you
> can clear. If you really want it, you can read about curses terminal
> manipulation library. "man curs_clear" or "man wclear" may work.

system("clear"); gives the desired result.


Best regards
Stefan