Question

I am trying to do a press Q to quit thing in the console window. I dont like my current implementation. Is there a way i can async or use a callback to get keys from the console?

Answer 1

You can call Console.ReadKey() from another thread, so that it doesn’t block your main thread. (You can use the .Net 4 Task or the old Thread to start the new thread.)

class Program
{
    static volatile bool exit = false;

    static void Main()
    {
        Task.Factory.StartNew(() =>
            {
                while (Console.ReadKey().Key != ConsoleKey.Q) ;
                exit = true;
            });

        while (!exit)
        {
            // Do stuff
        }
    }
}