Re: inkey$ in lua?

["Philippe Lhoste" <PhiLho@...>]

> Is there a way to gather single keystrokes from the user in lua?
> 
> or perhaps a way to see if any input is waiting without blocking on the 
> request?

In base Lua, no way to do this, it is highly dependent on the system you are
running.
For example, you don't use the same way in MS-Dos, in Linux, VMS, Windows or
Mac-OS...

> I want to write a game, but I need the computer to keep working while 
> the user
> decides what key top press.

Ah, it remind me of the good old days of Basic programming on 8-bit systems
:-)

In short, depending on what system your game is running (graphical? pure
text?), you probably have to 
write a C function to call the correct API/system call, and wrap it for use
in Lua.

Regards.

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