From: Phanixis <phanixis@...>
Date: 2004-09-06T13:40:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem Having Ruby Wait for a User Input

Is just want a single keystroke.  The operating system I am using is
Windows XP, but that should not have anything to do with the problem.

The code that I list is well capable of registering a key stroke.  If a
key is being press, and the method I list is invoked, it will register the
key press(provided it is one of the keys its designed for).  It is not so
much the registering of the key stroke a need, as the WAIT UNTIL a key is
pressed.  I want to take the existing code a created, and make it sit
there and wait for a key stroke.

Ordinarily, I would do this simply by placing the code inside a while
loop, and once the code registered a key input, it would change a variable
and terminate the while loop.  But for whatever reason, once nested in the
loop, the method ceases to register key strokes.