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jayme · Jan 1st, 2006, 12:17 PM

Is anyone familiar with console event handling, such as CTRL_BREAK_EVENT and others? If anyone would be kind enough how to explain anything i would appreciate it.

Cache · Jan 1st, 2006, 12:56 PM

It's really easy to find out about this kind of thing on MSDN.

Console Control handlers

Character-Mode Applications (console)

para · Jan 1st, 2006, 2:30 PM

If you're working with *nix, check out documentation on tcgetattr() and related functions (they use the termios structure), or the library NCurses.

man page for tcgetattr - http://chrestomanci.org/cgi-bin/man/...ml?tcgetattr+3

ncurses howto - http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/

For CTRL+C the terminal generates the signal SIGINT (default action is termination) and sends it to the current attached process. You can control if the terminal generates the signal using the low level terminal interface through the tcgetattr() related functions.
NCurses is a big wrapper that works for most terminals, and handles a lot of the terminal specifics behind the scenes.

Cache · Jan 1st, 2006, 3:40 PM

Just a little more from the Win32 side:

A nice little tutorial posted on 'The Code Project'
http://www.codeproject.com/win32/con...t_handling.asp

The Code Project is a great site. I always check there for Win API stuff when MSDN seems to overcomplicate things -- sending you round in circles lol.

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Jan 1st, 2006, 12:56 PM	#2
Cache Hobbyist Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 266 Rep Power: 4	It's really easy to find out about this kind of thing on MSDN. Console Control handlers Character-Mode Applications (console)

Jan 1st, 2006, 2:30 PM	#3
para Programmer Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 65 Rep Power: 3	If you're working with *nix, check out documentation on tcgetattr() and related functions (they use the termios structure), or the library NCurses. man page for tcgetattr - http://chrestomanci.org/cgi-bin/man/...ml?tcgetattr+3 ncurses howto - http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/ For CTRL+C the terminal generates the signal SIGINT (default action is termination) and sends it to the current attached process. You can control if the terminal generates the signal using the low level terminal interface through the tcgetattr() related functions. NCurses is a big wrapper that works for most terminals, and handles a lot of the terminal specifics behind the scenes.

Jan 1st, 2006, 3:40 PM	#4
Cache Hobbyist Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 266 Rep Power: 4	Just a little more from the Win32 side: A nice little tutorial posted on 'The Code Project' http://www.codeproject.com/win32/con...t_handling.asp The Code Project is a great site. I always check there for Win API stuff when MSDN seems to overcomplicate things -- sending you round in circles lol.

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