From: Stefan Schmiedl <s@...>
Date: 2001-12-31T12:17:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29791] Re: Fetch a character from keyboard buffer


ATT News (2001-12-31 12:01):

> What is the win32api call in ruby to fetch the next character from the
> keyboard buffer? 

require 'Win32API'
getch = Win32API.new("crtdll", "_getch", [], 'L')
puts getch.Call.chr

should work ... although I did not try it myself .-)

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s.

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