console application question >.<?

[chainswap]

ok i am trying to make a simple game on the console application so i made something as simple as if i press 'A' on my keyboard it tells me that i pressed
the letter 'A' here is my code:

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main(){
    char input;
    cin>>input;
    if (input=='a'){
                  cout<< "you pressed 'a' on the keyboard! XD" <<endl;
                  cin.get();
                  }
                  else {
                       cout<< "you did not press a" <<endl;
                       cin.get();
                       }
                       cin.get();
                       }

ok but in order to make it work i still have to press Enter after i press 'A'
how do i cancel the Enter button (so i can just press 'A' instead >.>? is
there a way?

[Zhuge]

Try searching for something like 'unbuffered input'.

[Disch]

Alternatively:

http://cplusplus.com/forum/articles/28558/

[chainswap]

ahh thank you for the link very helpful XD

[chainswap]

ok 1 more question these dlls that im gonna use to get keyboard input corectly
were made with C++ so just for the sake of knowing it (so maybe i could make my own dlls)

so how would i get keyboard input >.>?

[zwA4jE8b]

#include conio.h

if(kbhit())
 char = getch();
   if(char == 'h')
     cprintf("You pressed H");

and here comes the why conio.h is no good.... GO

btw char = some char variable

[andywestken]

:-)

For a simple, education console program on Windows, I am very much pro getch, though I think it perfersto be called _getch these days.

Apart from anything else, it keeps the dependencies down (no need to include windows.h)

[chainswap]

thanks peoples ill mess around with this information to see what works best XD