From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2004-09-10T05:42:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Listening for Keypress while Working

Hi,

From: "James Edward Gray II" <james@grayproductions.net>
> On Sep 9, 2004, at 2:23 PM, James Edward Gray II wrote:
> 
> > What's the best way to go about this, select() over STDIN in my 
> > processing loop?
> 
> Hmm, I don't appear to be able to select() over STDIN.  Now I'm really 
> in need of a good idea...  <laughs>

Which operating system?

On win32... I haven't tried it... they seem to have 
provided _kbhit() in <conio.h>... Apparently implemented
in terms of win32 PeekConsoleInput()...

I dunno if it really works...?  :)  But you might be able
to try calling it using ruby/dl...

On *nix, I think if you put the tty into raw mode you should
be able to select on stdin and detect unbuffered keypresses.


Sorry I can't be of more help  . . 

Regards,

Bill