From: Gennady Bystritsky <Gennady.Bystritsky@...>
Date: 2006-02-12T15:17:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Simultaneous text input/output in a command line game

Just from the tip of my head:

t = Thread.new {
  while true
    sleep 5
    puts "What are you waiting for, dude? Enter something now: "
  end
}
puts "Enter something: "
s = gets
t.kill
puts "You entered: #{s.inspect}"        

Gennady.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rubyvic [mailto:rubyvic@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 22:08
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Simultaneous text input/output in a command line game
> 
> Hi everyone!
> 
> I'm currently learning Ruby, and have made this simple number 
> guessing game:
> ____________________________
> puts "I'm thinking of a number from 0 to 10. What's your guess?"
> 
> my_number = rand(11)
> user_guess = gets.chomp.to_i
> 
> until user_guess == my_number
> if user_guess > my_number
> puts "Too high."
> else my_number > user_guess
> puts "Too low."
> end
> puts "Guess again:"
> user_guess = gets.chomp.to_i
> end
> 
> puts "Yep, it was " + my_number.to_s + ". You win!"
> ____________________________
> 
> A friend of mine wrote a Java version which you can see here: 
> http://violasong.com/tonyguessinggame.java. In addition to 
> what my script does, his is able to taunt you with a random 
> message if you don't input any data for 5 seconds :).
> 
> I want to try adding that functionality to my script, and am 
> wondering if it's possible in Ruby - to print a message every 
> x seconds *while* it's waiting for you to input something. If 
> someone could point me in the right direction, that would be 
> much appreciated!
> 
> Victoria Wang
> 
>