How do I build an event-driven console application?

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shadowfiend · Answer

Noice.

shadowfiend · Answer

What do you mean by event-driven?

anonymous · Answer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event-driven_programming

shadowfiend · Answer

Also feel free to ask the other questions you had posted to math here, I'll try and answer as best I can (I already deleted them over there—stack traces, errors vs exceptions, etc).

shadowfiend · Answer

No, I mean specifically as it pertains to a console app. What kinds of events do you have in mind, that kind of thing.

anonymous · Answer

keypresses :-D

shadowfiend · Answer

I'm aware of what event-driven programming is; it's how dynamic web pages work! :)

shadowfiend · Answer

Ok, gotcha. You'll probably want to look into one of two libraries. One is called GNU readline -> http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html . I believe it provides the ability to hook into keypresses. The other is ncurses, which is designed for full-blown GUI-like apps in the console -> http://www.gnu.org/s/ncurses/ .

anonymous · Answer

Are they like conio.h

shadowfiend · Answer

They're probably a bit more advanced than conio.

anonymous · Answer

Yeah conio is deprecated :-P

shadowfiend · Answer

It's also for MS DOS hehe. The thing I don't know is whether either work with DOS/the Windows shell. They may be UNIX only, and thus require at minimum cygwin on Windows.