Re: How to Read Keyboard Input

Gary Highberger <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.gnu.general
Message-ID <CAAWCt5zUVjU0YWA3FszDoUBzszMxn_-inSzJuHjA83te9rzTpw@mail.gmail.com>
I didn't realize the standard streams, stderr, stdin, and stdout were
available in Smalltalk as objects. I can take it from here. Thank you for
enlightening me Felipe!
Gary

On Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 12:13 AM Felipe Bañados Schwerter <
[email protected]> wrote:

> You want to look into the methods in the accessing-reading protocol of
> the Stream class.
> Link to the manual:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk/manual-base/gst-base.html#Stream_002daccessing_002dreading
>
> e.g. to read a line from stdin, you can do
>
> stdin nextLine.
>
>
> On Jan 13, 2021, at 7:58 PM, Gary Highberger <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm sure it's possible but I sure can't figure out how. I consulted very
> well written papers by Valencia Consulting and the Bluebook and still
> haven't a clue how to read the keyboard from a running Smalltalk program
> (in C getchar() , scanf(), etc. are used).
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Gary Highberger
>
>
>
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