From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2004-09-07T00:35:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem Having Ruby Wait for a User Input

On Sep 5, 2004, at 11:40 PM, Phanixis wrote:

> 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.

According to "The Ruby Way", the Windows method for reading a single 
keystroke is:

require "Win32API"
char = Win32API.new("crtdll", "_getch", [ ], "L").Call

I assume you could wrap that call in a loop, checking for the keys you 
want.

Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II