I use EventMachine LineText2 protocol and I would like to fire receive_line
method everytime I press a character on my keyboard and not just when I enter a new line. Is there a way to change that default behaviour?
class KeyboardHandler < EM::Connection
include EM::Protocols::LineText2
def initialize(q)
@queue = q
end
def receive_line(data)
@queue.push(data)
end
end
EM.run {
q = EM::Queue.new
callback = Proc.new do |line|
# puts on every keypress not on "\n"
puts line
q.pop(&callback)
end
q.pop(&callback)
EM.open_keyboard(KeyboardHandler, q)
}
If you want to receive unbuffered input from the terminal, you should turn off canonical-mode on standard input. (I also turn off echo to make the screen easier to read.) Add this before your code calls #open_keyboard
or within your handler initializer:
require 'termios'
# ...
attributes = Termios.tcgetattr($stdin).dup
attributes.lflag &= ~Termios::ECHO # Optional.
attributes.lflag &= ~Termios::ICANON
Termios::tcsetattr($stdin, Termios::TCSANOW, attributes)
For example:
require 'termios'
require 'eventmachine'
module UnbufferedKeyboardHandler
def receive_data(buffer)
puts ">>> #{buffer}"
end
end
EM.run do
attributes = Termios.tcgetattr($stdin).dup
attributes.lflag &= ~Termios::ECHO
attributes.lflag &= ~Termios::ICANON
Termios::tcsetattr($stdin, Termios::TCSANOW, attributes)
EM.open_keyboard(UnbufferedKeyboardHandler)
end