Non Blocking read in consol Java app

[Akhilesh Mritunjai]

Hi there
any ideas about getting a non blocking read in java consol (and otherwise)
app. i also want to capture special keys (like pgup and alt and et all).
in a nut shell i want a getch() equivalent for java...
yours
Akhilesh

[Paul Clapham]

For non-blocking reads, create a thread that does the read.

Akhilesh Mritunjai <akhileshmritunjai@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hi there
> any ideas about getting a non blocking read in java consol (and otherwise)
> app. i also want to capture special keys (like pgup and alt and et all).
> in a nut shell i want a getch() equivalent for java...
> yours
> Akhilesh