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I have CLI implementation for my VisualWorks application.
There is “IOAccessor defaultClass stdin” and I want to read one character without waiting for user enter press.
It is possible?
in C language there is function like getCh …
This is not a problem of the language: also the C-language getchar() will have to wait.
It is a matter of the underlying Operating System’s tty-code. On UNIX (eg. Linux), you’d have to change the tty-characteristics to unbuffered, using an stty (old-style) or ioctl call.
Under other OSs, similar system calls do similar things.