From: Bertram Scharpf <lists@...>
Date: 2007-08-26T09:16:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie questions

Hi,

Am Sonntag, 26. Aug 2007, 07:00:06 +0900 schrieb William James:
> On Aug 25, 3:05 pm, "Barr, Keith" <keith.b...@lmco.com> wrote:
> > I have a menu that I would like users to respond to
> > simply by entering a single character.
> 
>   def getkey
>     select( [$stdin], nil, nil, 0.01 ) ?  c = $stdin.getc : c = nil
>   end

Why `c=卒? Why twice?

It doesn't work here; it still waits for the enter key.

I doubt whether there is any other way than using termios.

Bertram


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