How to read standard input continuously?

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C/C++: Capture characters from standard input without waiting for enter to be pressed

Is there a way to read standard input continuously? I want to make an X and O game and I want the player to use the the arrows to move its position on the grid. I can't use cin because it requests you to press enter to get the input data into variables. So, does a function or an object doing that exist?

This explains how to do it in a console application for both Windows and Linux: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/421860/c-c-capture-characters-from-standard-input-without-waiting-for-enter-to-be-pr — termie, Feb 17 '12 at 08:19

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 17 '12 at 08:09

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For console (text) applications you'd use something like ncurses, which does terminal 'GUI' controls.

For graphics applications you would use something like SDL which enables event-driven programming.

answered Feb 17 '12 at 08:09

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