Hi Monks, I'm trying to create a *very* simple console application which continuously displays text in a main loop until a user presses a key. I thought this would be easy to do, but i'm struggling to find a solution. The problem with the code below is of course that it is single-threaded, so it blocks until the user presses a key. Do I need to to fork another process to do this or is there a simpler way to do this ? This seems overly complicated for such a simple task.

As always, thank you for your time. 

my $StdIn = new Win32::Console( STD_INPUT_HANDLE );
$StdIn->Mode( ENABLE_PROCESSED_INPUT);
my $console = new Win32::Console();
$console->Cls( $FG_WHITE | $BG_GREEN );
while (1) {
        my $x = rand(10);
    $console->WriteChar($x,10,12);
    $console->Display();
    $console->Cursor(0,22);
        my $Data = $StdIn->InputChar(1)
        if (lc $Data eq "q") {
        exit;
    }
}

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