"Jesse Phillips" <jessekphillip...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:j78djv$1sr3$1...@digitalmars.com... > On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:49:01 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > >> >> One thing I'd been thinking of adding to mine was an alternate function >> that just waited for a single keystroke (rather than a line of text + >> Enter). I think I once had it working on Tango, IIRC, but then I >> switched to D2/Phobos and couldn't figure out how to use Phobos to wait >> for a single keystroke w/o then waiting for Enter. > > There isn't a C call to do something like this. In windows you can make a > call to system("pause"), but that doesn't provide custom text, isn't > cross platform, and apparently if you close the terminal it will start > executing code for the time it takes to shut down (i.e. unpause). > > Linux you have to pull out an curses trick to manipulate the terminal I > believe, also not cross platform. It would be nice to get.
What I meant was to also retreive the key pressed. But it sounds like that would still have the same problem.