From: Daniel Gaudry <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: wait does not perform as expected
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2023 10:47:57 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
On Thursday, February 23, 2023 at 7:29:36 PM UTC+1, Niklas Holsti wrote:
> On 2023-02-23 20:14, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> > On 2023-02-23 18:35, Niklas Holsti wrote:
> >> On 2023-02-23 16:26, AdaMagica wrote:
> >>> Niklas Holsti schrieb am Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2023 um 18:36:06 UTC+1:
> >>>> On my system, Get_Immediate does /not/ use the inputs collected (but
> >>>> not
> >>>> "consumed") by Look_Ahead, but instead checks if there are _new_ input
> >>>> keystrokes. If there are none, Get_Immediate returns "not Available"
> >>>> (Hit is False) and so the loop continues.
> >>>
> >>> Are you sure?
> >>
> >> That is what I observe.
> >
> > The implementation of Look_Ahead calls getc followed by ungetc. Thus it
> > blocks until an input if there is no buffered. And not just input, but
> > for a line or file end.
> That seems in order.
>
> However, the crux of the question is in Get_Immediate. Do you know how
> that is implemented on various systems? It has to disable line buffering
> and line editing on the input stream. One question is whether and how
> such "tty" configuration changes affect whatever buffers getc/ungetc use.
>
> On my system, if Look_Ahead uses getc and ungetc, it seems Get_Immediate
> does not use the same buffers, and has no effect on those buffers. That
> could be desirable behaviour in some cases, undesirable in others.
>
> On AdaMagica's system, it seems that Get_Immediate uses the same buffers
> as Look_Ahead (getc/ungetc).
Hi,
On my ubuntu system the
ada.text_io.GET_IMMEDIATE(ITEM => CHAR, AVAILABLE => HIT);
just pause the program regardless of any key being hit.
I just cannot use a wait (several shorts one in a row) interrupted by a key hit.
Any possibility you may know of ??
My Best Regards
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-22 16:34 wait does not perform as expected Daniel Gaudry
2023-02-22 17:36 ` Niklas Holsti
2023-02-23 14:26 ` AdaMagica
2023-02-23 14:32 ` AdaMagica
2023-02-23 14:33 ` Daniel Gaudry
2023-02-23 14:39 ` AdaMagica
2023-02-23 17:15 ` Niklas Holsti
2023-02-23 17:35 ` Niklas Holsti
2023-02-23 17:49 ` Niklas Holsti
2023-02-23 18:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2023-02-23 18:29 ` Niklas Holsti
2023-02-23 18:47 ` Daniel Gaudry [this message]
2023-02-23 19:08 ` Niklas Holsti
2023-02-23 19:31 ` Niklas Holsti
2023-02-23 20:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2023-02-24 15:10 ` AdaMagica
2023-02-24 18:23 ` Niklas Holsti
2023-02-24 21:16 ` Jeffrey R.Carter
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