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weather@sp90.csrd.uiuc.edu (Stephen A. Weatherford) writes:

>kentiler@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Kent Iler) writes:
> 

>>Hello,
>>   Is there a way to test to see if a key is already pressed.  Let say I run
>>this program from the autoexec, and I want to see if the space bar is pressed.
>>If it is I want to do one thing, if not I want to do another.  I don't want to
>>wait there for a key to be pressed, just see if it already is.  I have C++ and
>>Turbo Pascal to program with.  Thanks.
>>						--Kent

>Check out kbhit() and ungetch() [I think this last one exists] in your
>TC++ manual.

>--Stephen
>----
>Stephen A. Weatherford (weather@csrd.uiuc.edu) "mann, wer haette das gedacht
>G.R.A., Center for Supercomputing R&D           dass es einmal soweit kommt
>U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign               wegen 99 luftballons"

I only have QuickC info with me right now, but you can also try
(if it exists in TurboC in some form) "_bios_keybd(int param)"
where "param" is a code specifying if you'd like to check the keyboard,
or read from it, or something else. kbhit() does work well for most
cases though.

Andrew