Keyboard input

[jsfan3]

In the previous discussion #2295, I had asked in item 2:

Is there support (or a recommended approach) for capturing keyboard input and echoing it back to the screen?

I am moving the discussion on this issue here so as not to put multiple issues in the same thread.

I tried this code:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <os>

int main() {
    std::cout << "Insert a text: ";
    std::string input;
    std::getline(std::cin, input);
    std::cout << "You wrote: " << input << "\n";
    os::shutdown();
    return 0;
}

Unfortunately, the input request did not work. This is the result:

[torgeiru]

Hi, in order to use keyboard input you need to boot without -nographic and use VGA. Unfortunately, the support for keyboard is rather limited. I browsed the kernel for keyboard support and found some keyboard/mouse (ps2) handlers. I attempted to add a callback function to one of these and it seems to register keypresses. You can browse the API and try to make sense of it: ps2.hpp