From: ChrisH <chris.hulan@...>
Date: 2007-03-10T00:35:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Input syntax

On Mar 9, 9:01 am, "mosar" <jean.mo...@neuf.fr> wrote:
> On 9 mar, 14:02, "ChrisH" <chris.hu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Mar 9, 3:16 am, "mosar" <jean.mo...@neuf.fr> wrote:
>
> > > I have tried this little program taken from rubylearning.com site:
>
> > > puts "In which city do you stay ?"
>
> > > city= gets.chomp
> > > puts "The city is " + city
>
> > > At the right part of the Scite window I get
>
> > > >ruby Dhomp.rb
>
> > > In which city do you stay ?
>
> > > >Exit code: -1073741510
>
> > > I get another window which should be the so-called  output window
> > > (black) in which I should be able to write the name of the city. But I
> > > can't write in. The window's name is:C:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe. I suppose
> > > that this is not the correct one.
> > > Thanks for your help.
>
> > > mosar
>
> > This kind of interaction doesn't work in SciTe, try running it from a
> > cmd shell.
>
> > Cheers
> > Chris
>
> Thank you but according to the above-mentioned Site :
> "In the above example when you run it in SciTE, click on the output
> window and then type the name of your city." so one should be able to
> run an input function in Scite. How shall I proceed ?
> mosar

Just gave it a try, and the trick is to type in your response in the
SciTe
output window (not in the separate cmd window that gets opened), under
where
it shows the ruby command. You won't see the prompt message until
after
you enter the response

cheers
Chris