[viruscool]

Basically I'm learning to program in C on a windows computer (using visual basic compiler) everything going fine, that was until I cam home and tried to run my code in Xcode, everything runs fine except for the getch() command.
Anyone know of an aternative to getch(), or how to get it to work I.E. which header file etc.

I've looked at this thread here http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...ht=getch%28%29 but can't figure out what I'm doing wrong, plus that was back in 2001 and Xcode may have changed quite a bit since then.

Thanks in advance

Viruscool

[Thinine]

Are you including stdio.h?

[smitty825]

viruscool...getch isn't in the C standard library. IIRC, it is a Borland specific addition that was eventually incorporated into the Visual C/C++ compilers.

Anyway, you have a few choices:

1. Substitute the getch() function with the getchar() function. They behave a bit different, though, so you may need to modify your program to handle the differences, though. (I would give a quick code example, but I don't remember exactly how getch() behaves!)

2 Include the "<curses.h>" library. Inside <curses.h>, there is a getch() function that I think behaves the same as the Windows specific version. Including this file will likely make your final application slightly bigger, but the <curses.h> library is fairly portable among platforms and should compile just about anywhere... (There is a free (as in speech) version of the curses library called "ncurses" and implemented by the Free Software Foundation, if you prefer GPL'd stuff)

[parallax]

I think you need to do a whole lot of initialization stuff to get the curses routines to run...

I'd switch to getchar(). getc(stdin) works as well.