[Coco] [Color Computer] Update: Inkey for Microware C...

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 09 December 2003 15:49, KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 12/9/03 12:58:21 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>
>gene.heskett at verizon.net writes:
>>  believe you'll need to setup a setstt call to shut off the
>> console echoing, or do the equ in your program of calling 'tmode
>> -echo' before the fflush, and another to 'tmode echo' immediately
>> after the printf statement do when its done you have a cli that
>> echos what you type again.
>
>Right, Gene.  Actually, you may be better off to keep echo mode off
> for the entire run of your app, and take full responsibility for
> all echoing, when you want it.  That turns out to be less
> error-prone than expecting the system to echo for you sometimes,
> and not other times.  In UME I do all echoing, since I don't
> usually want it.  I disable system echo on startup and restore it
> on exit.
>
>>  Don't carve that in stone though, its been a while since
>>  I've coded in C.  I *think* thats "system 'tmode -echo'" without
>> the dbl quotes IIRC, somebody rescue me here, puleaze!  I know it
>> can be done, I've done it, but that was years back up the log.
>
>Yep,
>     system("tmode -echo");
>does the job, and upon exit repeat it without the '-' sign.  --Mike
> K.

I'll try not to stutter the next time Mike, thanks for the floatation 
device :-)

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