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4047 :: Non-blocking keyboard input

• markprocess (orginal) [2018-07-14T01:41:53+02:00] view original

  Is there a way to test that a call to getch() will not block? Thanks, Mark.

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• mashingan (orginal) [2018-07-14T01:49:02+02:00] view original

  Calling it in separate thread. Whether by createThread or spawn of threadpool module

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• 2vg (orginal) [2018-07-14T06:00:38+02:00] view original

  Or you can wait in the event loop.

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• Arrrrrrrrr (orginal) [2018-07-14T09:10:26+02:00] view original

  On windows, conio. Otherwise wrap this https://github.com/nsf/termbox

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• shashlick (orginal) [2018-07-14T18:15:34+02:00] view original

  I have it managed in a separate thread in snip. Since it has to be portable, I couldn't go with termbox.

  https://github.com/genotrance/snip/blob/master/src/snip/key.nim

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• JohnNovak (orginal) [2018-07-17T22:38:28+02:00] view original

  Maybe this will interest you: I'm writing small cross-platform Nim console library that can do non-blocking keyboard input (among other things, like double buffered output and box drawing). It's meant to be a very much simplified curses replacement, hence the name illwill :) It's in alpha status, officially not released yet, but you might find it useful or you can just copy relevant parts.

  https://github.com/johnnovak/illwill

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• markprocess (orginal) [2018-07-20T16:52:16+02:00] view original

  Thanks all. For the short term on just raspbian spawn(getch()) works well. Eventually I'll want key up and key down. Thanks for the repo refs. Mark.

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