Here is a Glib solution. You might have to jump thru a hoop to get Glib installed on win32, but it should work.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Glib;
use Glib qw/TRUE FALSE/;

use Term::ReadKey;
$|++;
ReadMode('cbreak');

my $main_loop = Glib::MainLoop->new;


my $count = 1;
my $timer  = Glib::Timeout->add (1000, \&timer_callback, undef, 1 );

Glib::Idle->add(
        sub{
            my $char;
            if (defined ($char = ReadKey(0)) ) {
            print "$char->", ord($char),"\n";    
            #process key presses here
            }
            return TRUE; #keep this going
          });
       

$main_loop->run;
ReadMode('normal'); # restore normal tty settings

sub timer_callback{
     $count++;
     print "$count\n";
    return 1;
}

__END__
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