How would I go abouts writing some code that would run on the SBC2, wait for keyboard input then continue. Currently I have this code working when I have the phidgets connected to windows using Scanner. When I run it from the SBC2 (with a usb keyboard attached) everything works except the text input... In windows I input it via the console. Thoughts?

I found one that seems to work well for me. Its a linux implementation of the DOS function kbhit().

http://linux-sxs.org/programming/kbhit.html

Try that out and see what you think.

and just to confirm, once i compile / run this on the sbc board, even though it's in c/c++ it will still work with my java app correct? this will just tell the board to listen for keystrokes, but any keystrokes will be sent to my java-app?

oh i am sorry, i have a habit of not looking at the specific forum this is in, and thus didnt realize it was a java question. I will start paying more attention.

The solution i posted was a c/c++ solution, and so it wont compile for java (whoops!). Let me take a look for java solutions this time.

(or switch to c/c++ )

I'm starting to think the problem might be usb keyboard compatibility on the board. It's throwing java.util.InputMismatchException when I press ANY button on the keyboard. (cannot reproduce problem on windows with built-in laptop keyboard -or- usb keyboard). and after some fooling about I noticed when I press the numlock button the light flashes instead of sticking then kinda goes out, flashes more, etc. So I suppose this isn't a java post anymore (unless theres a way to fix it with java) but if anyone knows of how I would go abouts enabling so that a usb keyboard works for input / console, that would be awesome