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Non Blocking input on Win32 platforms
I don't use win32, but have seen the problem on linux. The solution is to spawn a thread to read STDIN, see
Readkey with timer using Glib
. You may not need the Glib stuff, but it's only a 3 meg download, using the separate thread is the key.
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