[Gambas-user] Waiting for keystrokes in a console

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Am 07.05.2010 11:23, schrieb Benoît Minisini:
>> When I am in a console application, I merely have a
>>
>> PUBLIC SUB Main()
>>
>> END
>>
>> which will once go through and stop. So I guess when the program has to
>> wait for the user to press a key, I would have to monitor keystrokes
>> like in good old BASIC times such as
>>
>> while not instat(): wend
>> a$ = keystr$
>>
>> (Was it keystr, or what? Don't remember, it was something like that... :-)
>> )
>>
>> In Gambas, there is no instat() and stuff, so I thought maybe I can do
>> that with something like
>>
>> PUBLIC SUB MMain_KeyPress()
>>
>> END
>>
>> But when would this be activated? It wouldn't actually wait for a
>> keystroke but Main would just run through and quit.
>>
>> I know there is the Console example, but it requires a bash opened
>> background and catching its events via Process and so on - isn't that a
>> bit too much?
>>
>> You see, I don't get on with this. Probably I'm watching the problem
>> from the wrong direction ;-) so thanks for your help.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Rolf
>>
>
> Catching the standard input is automatically done if you create a static
> public event handler "Application_Read" in your startup class.
>
> But catching keystrokes easily is not possible, unless implementing a
> component based on ncurses.
>
> Regards,
>

So I'll try Application_Read. Thanks for that tip, too!

Regards

Rolf