From: Jan Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2006-10-26T21:40:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Do something until keypress

On 10/26/06, Peter Szinek <peter@rubyrailways.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to emulate the good old Pascal 'loop until keypressed' code
> snippet:
>
> repeat
>   write("Hello");
> until keypressed;
>
> (also the borland c/c++ function kbhit() was similar).
> Also I would like to continue the loop in the same manner unless the
> user pressed a specific key.
>
> Since ansi C/C++ does not support this functionality, I guess it is not
> supported by Ruby either - and after searching around a bit I could not
> find some good substitute yet.
>
> I do no want a general solution - it is enough if it will run under
> linux. It is also not a problem if it will require a gem or anything
> else (like libcurses-ruby or something).
>
> Any ideas?
>
> TIA
>
See previous thread: "Trouble using puts and getc in different threads"
and others.