Re: Reading the keyboard buffer

["Freelancer" <freelancer_2001@hotmail.com>]

Jeff Carter <jrcarter@acm.org> wrote in message
news:3A0DF0EB.B72F613D@acm.org...
> You might want to look at Ada.Text_IO.Get_Immediate.
>
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> Jeff Carter
> "I unclog my nose towards you."
> Monty Python & the Holy Grail

Thanks.. But from what I have tried with that, it locks until you press a
key, a lot like a getch(); in C... That's not what I want...

I want the loop to cycle without interruption. It checks if a key has been
pressed, if that's the case, then it runs the set of instructions that
correspond to the key that was pressed.

So for example :

loop
    put_line ("Hell O World!");
    if (kbd_buffer = 'E') then
        blah blah blah....
    end if;
    clr_kbd_buffer;
end loop;

Here, it would continuously write the phrase : Hell O World
until the key E was pressed.

Unlike with a get :

loop
    put_line ("Hell O World");
    get_immediate (char);
end loop;

Here it would write only once the phrase, and then wait for a key to be
pressed..

I hope this clarifies a bit more what I'm looking for... Thanks for your
help in advance!

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