AW: [En-Nut-Discussion] getch/kbhit

[Oliver Schulz]

Hi Brett,

yes, it would run for nut/os 3.4, but it is tied to one specific device, in
this case an UART. Thus it is not suitable for a "simple" function.

A more general function is not possible, unless we define a 'global' ioctl
function code (ex: IOCTL_GETSTATUS), which delivers some globaly defined
status bits.
After that, it would be possible to write a 'kbhit()' function, that uses
the stdin file, regardless, which device/file is connected to stdin.

Harald, what do you think?

Cheers,
Oliver.


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Betreff: [En-Nut-Discussion] getch/kbhit


Originally posted May 2003.  Support to test for incoming characters waiting
is kind of there.  This may help you out

Oliver - Could the test part of this be usefully added to nutos as kbhit? -
Looks ugly but is pretty straightforward to use.

Regards
Brett

Hi

The following snippet of code can be used to check for the existance of
incoming characters without having to actually receive them.  Useful for
"Press the Return key or wait 10 seconds to reload last known configuration"
type messages.  Improved versions of version portable code welcomed.

It uses the uart library.  Is there a more generic stream or file function
call I could use?  I chose this approach rather than write a custom function
to hopefully support future and past nutos releases.

Hopefully this will save someone some effort.

Cheers
Brett

// Globals
FILE *uart;
u_long UartStatus;
u_long *UartStatus_ptr;

// Sample Code to check for key press, Assumes uart file already open. Does
not block if no characters were received.

  // Were any keys pressed?
  result=UartAvrIOCtl(((NUTFILE *) (_fileno(uart)))->nf_dev, UART_GETSTATUS,
UartStatus_ptr);
  if((UartStatus & UART_RXBUFFEREMPTY)==0) // One or more keys were pressed
       // Now go get it
       if((rlen = _read(_fileno(uart), rxbuff_ptr, RXBUFF_LEN)) > 0) // Get
the characters
          if(strchr(rxbuff_ptr, '\r') || strchr(rxbuff_ptr, '\n'))    // Did
the user hit <CR> or <LF> ?
              UserEnterNewConfig();  // Yes? go to Configure mode


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