Detecting if key is pressed objective-c++

Question

Without using Cocoa, how could I detect if a key is currently pressed in objective-c++? In Windows you use 'GetAsyncKeyState'.

Answer 1

What you're trying to do is not possible. Command line programs interact with input and output files (stdin, stdout, stderr), which do not transmit events such as "key pressed" or "key released", but only streams of characters (bytes, actually).