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Hi all,
I'm trying to get a simple curses program working on Solaris using gcc.
it compile and everything about the code is just fine appart from the part where it reads input. Its the begginings of a game (but its just nonsense at the moment, I'm just trying to get a basic input/display loop going)

There are supposedly ways to make getchar() non-blocking. I found refference to them here:
http://www.gsp.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?s...opic=halfdelay

I've tried them all to no avail. The proram fails to progress unless the user hits a key.

Basically if it worked the way I wanted "moo" would shoot off the end of the screen instantly, and the ship would move around with keypresses. But, "moo" only moves each time the key is pressed. And I know there's no function call to make getchar() non-blocking in there at the moment, but i tried them all on the previous link (the gsp one) and none worked. Any ideas?


The code is as follows:
#include <curses.h>
#include <string.h>
#define XMAX 95
#define YMAX 76
#define XMIN 0
#define YMIN 2
void update_ship();
void update_thing();
int level = 1;
int lives = 30;
int ship_y = 58;
int ship_x = 20;
char ship1[]=" .^. ";
char ship2[]="-<_>-";

int main(){
initscr(); /* Start curses mode */
noecho(); /* Don't echo() while we do getch */
keypad(stdscr, TRUE);

mvprintw(level,10,"moo");
while(lives > 0){
timeout(10);
int ch = getchar();
if (ch == 'a'){
ship_x--;
}

else if (ch == 'd'){
ship_x++;
}
else if (ch == 'q'){
lives = -1;
}
else if (ch == ' '){
//fire somehow
}

else if (ch == 'w'){
ship_y--;
}

else if (ch == 's'){
ship_y++;
}

initscr();//clear screen

//redraw screen
update_ship();
update_thing();
}
endwin(); /* End curses mode */
printf("\n\nyou died you twat\n");
return 0;
}
void update_ship(){

mvprintw(ship_y, ship_x, ship1);
mvprintw(ship_y+1, ship_x, ship2);
mvprintw(0, 0, " ");
refresh();
}

void update_thing(){
mvprintw(level,10,"moo");
level++;
refresh();
}

Have you tryied the getch or wgetch? They may solve your problem

let me know...

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it works!
thanks!

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