[Gambas-user] Application_Read does react only once

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Am 04.03.2011 01:06, schrieb Benoît Minisini:
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> This is a small project I have been circling around for about a year or
>>> so. It would be a simple command line application that waits for and
>>> evaluates every keystroke you make.
>>>
>>> Some of you were so kind to point me to Application_Read to achieve
>>> that, but I found it only gives one single keystroke (a Return) and
>>> (seamingly) is never called again. To make things short, this is the
>>> core of my application so far:
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> So, why does "hello world" only appear one single time (after a first
>>> Return), and why will I never read " : " but only the letters of the
>>> keys pressed?
>>>
>>> On my machine, the whole thing runs within "Konsole" on a graphical
>>> screen, but I think that will not really make a difference, will it?
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help!
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Rolf
>>
>> Please send a complete project each time you report a bug, even if it is a
>> small one that looks evident for you.
>>
>> Regards,
>
> That code works perfectly in real situation (inside a terminal). But not
> correctly from the IDE, as apparently stroke typed from the IDE console window
> are not received immediately by the debugged application. You must type a lot
> of characters before.
>
> Regards,
>

Ok, that explains it. What a pitty... All I would need for my idea is a 
reliable single key reader (such as getch() in ncurses) and the chance 
to find out the terminal dimensions.

So I'll try to get it done with ncurses.

Regards

Rolf