From: Julius Plenz <usenet@...>
Date: 2004-08-19T01:31:07+09:00
Subject: Threads + Ncurses

Hi,

I'm fairly new to ruby and wanted to write some example programs in
ruby using ncurses-wrapper-library. That is, in fact, really simple
and works well.

But now I have a problem: I want ncurses to draw some things on the
screen and update it every second - until a key is pressed. I'm trying
to do it as follows (short example):

stop = nil
Thread.new do
  until stop
    Ncurses.printw("foo") # just an example...
    Ncurses.refresh
    sleep 1
  end
  Ncurses.endwin
end
Ncurses.getch
stop = 1

But I suppose Ncurses.getch blocks any other ncurses-functions from
writing anything on the window... so - what to do?

I just want to run the thread continuously until one key is pressed...
What other possibilities do I have?

Thanks in advance  :-)

Julius