Greetings Monks,

Ok, I'm trying to do this Console/Teminal interaction shell... So far I've done the following which is the closest I've gotten to what I want:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Term::ReadKey;

use strict;
use warnings;

startListening();

#$| = 1;
#$|++;
#select(STDOUT);
#$| = 1;

sub startListening {

    # Disable CTRL keys
    ReadMode(4);
    my $word = '';
    print "> ";

    while(1) {

        my $char;
        if (defined ($char = ReadKey(0))){
            print $char;
        }
        my $ord = ord($char);

        last if ($ord == 3);

        if ($ord == 10 or $ord == 13) {  # "Enter"
            enterPressed($word);
            $word = "";
            print "> ";
            next;
        }
        elsif ($ord == 127) { # ie "Backspace"
            #chop($word);
            #print chr(8),' ',chr(8);
            print "BACKSPACE!\n";
            next;
        }
        elsif ($ord == 27) {
            #clearstream();
               #$ord="\0";
        }
        elsif ($ord == 8) {
            print "BACKSPACE!\n";
        }

        #if($ord != "\0"){
            #$word .= chr($ord);
            #print '*';
        #}

    }

    ReadMode(0);
}

sub clearstream {
    while(1) {
        my $char;
        if (defined ($char = ReadKey(-1)) ){}else{return}
    }
    return;
}

sub enterPressed {

    my $word = shift;
    print "WORD: " . $word . "\n";

}
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Now, the problem I have here running this in Window XP, is that I have to press another key (several times) just after a Enter/Return press to show the "WORD..." output. Why is that and how to fix this? Seems like its cached or not flushed properly?

I've tested out with ReadMode(0); but then I can't make the "BACKSPACE!" work. Although I may not need all those special keys, it would be nice to make it work just in case...

Oh, and yea, I know about Term::ReadLine and all those Zoid and Gnu submodules... but Zoid didn't really work in Windows... Got some wierd output by keypress which I shouldn't get... And, with ReadKey its not that big step to make it work as ReadLine (that is, save all keypresses in a scalar, and use this "command" saved in a scalar when enter is pressed)...plus that ReadKey can be non-blocking aswell!

Thanks,
Ace

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