Hi, On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Kieren Diment wrote:
> I would like to write a little program or two for the entertainment of my 18 > month old daughter as she really likes banging around on the keyboard (or > sometimes playing with the trackball mouse. > > Can anybody tell me how to get keyboard input onto the root window to be > re-directed into the stdin for a shell script, as I want to start up by > making the screen change colours depending on what key she presses. > Is it not easy to write a simple C program? stdin and stdout are the main parts. Just wait for a keypress, then with a case statement you can fill the screen with blank (coloured) characters? Maybe not the trivial way, though. Greetz, Sebastiaan > Thanks in anticipation > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
