Re: Non blocking user input

[Steve Litt <slitt@...>]

On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 07:00:12 -0700
Milind Gupta <milind.gupta@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>       Is it possible to have a non blocking keyboard poll in Lua? If
> there is a keypress I get a key code otherwise I get no key pressed.
> 
> Thanks,
> Milind


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function getch_unix()
        os.execute("stty cbreak </dev/tty >/dev/tty 2>&1")
        local key = io.read(1)
        os.execute("stty -cbreak </dev/tty >/dev/tty 2>&1");
        return(key);       
end
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SteveT

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