Re: Technique for receiving specific keystrokes in GNUStep base

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 15 Feb 2007, at 15:39, Michael Hopkins wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I am looking for some advice on how best to recognise and act on  
> certain key
> strokes (e.g. Ctrl-C) whilst running a command line tool that uses  
> GNUStep
> base.
>
> Currently our code (on various *nix's & Win32) uses the posix signal()
> construct e.g.
>
>   #include <signal.h>
>
>    signal( SIGINT, function_to_call(...) );
>
>
> I assume there is a more elegant way to do this in GNUStep base.  Is
> NSRunLoop involved perhaps?

I'm afraid your assumption is wrong ... the OpenStep API does not  
address this issue at all, so you have to use the same posix/signal  
mechanism as other platforms :-(
On the plus side, at least you already know how to do that.