How to run program whilst listening for user input in C?

Question

I\'m trying to make a game that continues running until a key is pressed and then it should take that key in and do something with it then continue running as per normal. Ho

Answer 1

Sounds like you want to wait for a key to be pressed and then continue execution:

//test.c

#include 
#include 

void *input_listener(void *threadarg)
{
  getchar();
  printf("A key was pressed.\n");
}

int main()
{
  printf("Start\n");
  pthread_t thread;
  pthread_create(&thread, NULL, input_listener, NULL);
  pthread_join(thread, NULL);

  // Continue main
}

Should be very simple to do with pthreads (need to compile: gcc test.c -lpthread).