Re: Check for a keypress

[Paul Merrell <marbux@...>]

On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Jose Torre-Bueno <jtorrebueno@cox.net> wrote:
> Is there a way from inside Lua to check whether any key has been pressed?
> io.read() will get a line from the console but if there is no input it pends
> waiting for input.  I would like to be able to write a test that gets input
> if any is ready but would continue if there is none.  It is not obvious to
> me if this can be done at all.

I don't think so. We had to implement in C the capability to read
input from the system's keyboard buffer when we added AutoReplace and
AutoCompletion features to NoteCase Pro.

Paul

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