Re: Non blocking user input

[Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@...>]

Am 20.03.2014 19:19 schröbte Victor Bombi:
> > The point is that there's no platform-independent way of doing this....
>
> Yes, with luaLanes

LuaLanes isn't platform independent (although it runs on Windows and 
POSIX at least). Additionally, while you can avoid blocking your program 
via an extra thread, you might still have to wait for a newline 
character, before any key presses are signaled to you (terminal input 
usually is line-buffered).

If you are on a POSIX machine, see here[1] for a possible solution using 
luaposix ...

Philipp

  [1]: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/104876