Re: Key-press detection

On Aug 28, 11:35 am, "David Sweeney" <David.Sween...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I am using C++ (with the Visual C++ compiler) on Windows XP, and I am hoping
to develop a simple computer game. I would like to know if there is a way to
detect which key the user is pressing, eg, if the user is pressing 'a', can
that be transferred into a character? Can you write:

char c = GetKeyPress();

or something similar?

SDL (http://www.libsdl.org) provides some pretty easy facilities for
doing what you want, and may be helpful in developing the rest of your
game as well. As a bonus, it runs on many platforms, so your game will
be portable if you ever decide to take that route, make it more
advanced, etc.

.

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