From: Luis Parravicini <lparravi@...>
Date: 2010-10-26T04:40:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Pausable script

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Ted Flethuseo <flethuseo@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm trying to build a script that writes something every 2 minutes. This
> is what I have so far, but I would like to make it so that I can pause
> it, with a certain key, and make it continue with another key. When it
> is unpaused it should keep track where it left off.
>
> Any ideas how to do this?
>
> 40.times do |i|
>    puts  i
>    sleep(200);
>    puts "write something"
> end

You could replace the sleep(200) with a loop doing something like:
sleeping a small amount of time (e.g.: 100ms), checking if there's
user input available, act accordingly and sleeping again.


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Luis Parravicini
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