> Does anybody know the best way to get input from the command line? > Specifically space and escape. > > I have my program doing things in a thread and constantly reporting > information. I'd like the main thread to be able to pause and unpause the > other thread on space and to quit program cleanly with escape. > > I tried using Curses, but it didn't work out too well. I got the input > great, but I came across problems when adding strings that went off screen > (lol). Rather than try to fix this I finally decided that I didn't want to > use Curses since it can't run on Windows. > > Am I getting into the realm of GUI software here simply by wanting input > from space and escape? I just wanted something I could start in a terminal > and forget about really. > > Does anyone have any ideas? > > Thanks, > Fiona
I think I must be missing something. Why don't you just use pygame keys? http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/key.html -- Douglas E Knapp http://sf-journey-creations.wikispot.org/Front_Page
