Get that doesn't pause

[Taur]

is there a way to use get without pausing everything else? I tried making a procedure and then calling get in it, but it still pauses it. the only other way I can think of is making a new get procedure by using keys and stuff, I could do it but I was wondering if there was an easier way?

[pkchris]

Maybe if you put it in a process then used fork.

code:

process getpro get whatever end getpro fork getpro

[Taur]

I don't understand that fork does

[pkchris]

"Fork" just makes a process run seperate so that you can have other stuff going on at the same time. Check out Turing Help for more info.

[Paul]

The general concensus is to avoid using processes and forks in your programs.
read up on the advanced input tutorial
and also in general Input.KeyDown then F9 (turing's reference).

[Taur]

what has that got to do with using a get that doesn't pause?

[Paul]

Perhaps if you'd read the tutorial, its about input. What is get? its input.
Check out this old typing game I made with Input.KeyDown.

This requires getting the user's input without pausing the game. Get it?

[Taur]

I aldready considered that and I posted in my title, it would take a bit of coding and 1 line would be much easier if not much more efficient, but I guess it's the only way

[md]

easy and how you do something aren't always the same. So what if it's more then one line, write a procedure! You probably should be doing so anyways. If you ask for help don't complain because the answers given are "too hard" or are "more then a line".

[Taur]

sorry but I was looking for a build in turing procedure because mine might be less efficient..

[Paul]

Its ok.
But you have to realize that turing is not meant for that sort of thing. Turing is a learning language, where you should build everything from scratch, and you're only given a few things for you to work with.

Things like C++ have huge amounts pre-made things that comes in its libraries.

Have fun being creative!

[Taur]

okay thx

I finished it, it works pretty good with the exception of the little black boxy thingy but yah thx for everything

[Albrecd]

Or, A much simpler way would be to use:

code:

var input : char put "Please Type A Letter" input := getchar put "Your Letter Was: ",input

[Cervantes]

Hmm? That still pauses.
If you want to use getch/getchar, you need to wrap it in an if hasch statement:

code:

var input := "" for i : 0 .. maxx     if hasch then         input += getchar     end if     locate (1, 1)     put input     Draw.Dot (i, 50, black)     delay (10) end for

Although, this would be better if instead of having a delay, you had a loop that accepted input. (Think: what happens if you press a key while the delay is on, then lift the key before the key is lifted?)

code:

var input := "" var time_enter : int for i : 0 .. maxx     time_enter := Time.Elapsed     loop         if hasch then             input += getchar         end if         exit when Time.Elapsed - time_enter >= 10     end loop     locate (1, 1)     put input     Draw.Dot (i, 50, black) end for