PEEK and READ again

[PHead]

Ive searched usenet before, with nothing, so Ill go ahead and ask...

Does anyone know how to read from the keyboard buffer from a console
app, *without* blocking? I know about the PInvoke method and
SetConsoleMode to char, which I am doing, but there is still a problem.
What I need to do is immediately exit the code if nothing is in the
buffer. Peek-ing will work the first time only. After that, it blocks.

If this can't be done, then Im pretty much forced into writing my own
console-type of output, which I dont think Ive ever seen such code
written before. So, I guess its a 2-part question - *real* non
blocking reads or a .NET or COM custom console with that ability?

Thanks in advance

 

[Jon Shemitz]

Does anyone know how to read from the keyboard buffer from a console

app, *without* blocking?

Console.Read()

 

[Jon Shemitz]

Does anyone know how to read from the keyboard buffer from a console
app, *without* blocking?

In 2.0, there's Console.KeyAvailable ....

 

[PHead]

Console.Read() blocks.

 

[PHead]

Do you know when 2.0 is due out? I'll have to read up on that. I did
find an ugly solution (works though)... I create a new thread that does
the read in an endless loop (yuck). If it finds a key, it updates a
property of the new thread. When I want to "non-block" read, I just
look at that thread property in the original thread.

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Do you know when 2.0 is due out? I'll have to read up on that. I did
find an ugly solution (works though)... I create a new thread that does
the read in an endless loop (yuck). If it finds a key, it updates a
property of the new thread. When I want to "non-block" read, I just
look at that thread property in the original thread.

I believe 2.0 is due out early in November.