[Terry A. Davis]

So I was thinking of it today, my program requires user input from a list and I got a thought from Linux how you press tab it auto completes to whatever command it is closest too.


My thought was something like this

Code

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

using std::string;
using std::cout;
using std::cin;

int main()
{
string sInput;
cout << "Enter the input";
cin >> sInput;
/*If it is an exact input as in it fits the following if statements it goes and does that.*/

/*However, if it doesn't it loads PDCurses or a similar library that allows "console" manipulation so it lists them then I can press up or down to choose the closest one judging by what the first few characters are. */
}

Yeah shit syntax and such, but idgaf. I am just stuck how I would set up like a Linux auto-completion feature. Without criticizing me to much how would I do this or can you point me somewhere?

[g4143]

If your trying to implement this on a Linux console then you'll have to look at the ncurses library so that you can grab keystrokes and display output.

[Terry A. Davis]

Nah sadly I am using crappy pdcurses for Windows for the time being.

[g4143]

Nah sadly I am using crappy pdcurses for Windows for the time being.

Did you try looking at Window's conio functionality?

[Shihanus]

The other problem is that as far as I'm aware cin is a blocking functions. You'll have to use non blocking input or multiple threads.