.\"causes next character of input to be sent to a specified function .TH get_char 3 "5 Sep 1994" MudOS "LPC Library Functions" .SH NAME get_char - causes next character of input to be sent to a specified function .SH SYNOPSIS varargs void get_char( string | function fun, int flag, ... ); .SH DESCRIPTION Enable next character of user input to be sent to the function `fun' as an argument. The input character will not be parsed by the driver. .PP Note that get_char is non-blocking which means that the object calling get_char does not pause waiting for input. Instead the object continues to execute any statements following the get_char. The specified function `fun' will not be called until the user input has been collected. .PP If "get_char()" is called more than once in the same execution, only the first call has any effect. .PP If optional argument `flag' is non-zero, the char given by the player will not be echoed, and is not seen if snooped (this is useful for collecting passwords). .PP The function `fun' will be called with the user input as its first argument (a string). Any additional arguments supplied to get_char will be passed on to `fun' as arguments following the user input. .SH BUGS Please note that get_char has a significant bug in MudOS 0.9 and earlier. On many systems with poor telnet negotiation (read: almost every major workstation on the market), get_char makes screen output behave strangely. It is not recommended for common usage throughout the mudlib until that bug is fixed. (It is currently only known to work well for users connecting from NeXT computers.) .SH SEE ALSO call_other(3), call_out(3), input_to(3)