From: Eric Armstrong <Eric.Armstrong@...>
Date: 2006-08-02T06:51:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Loop Timing and Constant Input

James Edward Gray II wrote:
> On Jul 31, 2006, at 10:51 PM, Eric Armstrong wrote:
> 
>>   a) There doesn't seem to be any equivalent for the
>>      windows Kbhit. That's the nice little operation
>>      that lets you ask whether there is a character
>>      in the buffer, and proceed if there isn't any.
> 
> Would the standard io/wait library work for this?  
 > It adds a ready?() method to IO objects.
> 
ooohhhh. Dude! You're giving me chills!

Found the API docs here:
http://stdlib.rubyonrails.org/libdoc/io/wait/rdoc/index.html

What do I do to use it? This:

   require 'io/wait'

Or is it something like this:

   require 'io/wait/lib/nonblock'

Once I get the require clause right, that adds
the methods to the IO class.

Then it's a matter of figuring out how to use it
with Curses. I suppose I can do this:

   if $stdin.ready? then
      c = stdscr.getch
      ...

Yes?

And speaking of curses...

I found this nicely formatted rdoc site in New Zealand:
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/references/ruby/stdlib/libdoc/curses/rdoc/ 


The fascinating thing is, it mentions about twice as
many APIs as the standard site: http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/

The NZ TOC page says it was generated in Summer of 2004,
so it's doubtful that it's for 1.9 (unless the date is
wrong).

I wonder what's going on?