While Loop problem

Question posted by: PythonNotSoGuru (Newbie) on July 2nd, 2008 04:44 PM

Hi everyone. I am using a while loop in a game and during the game loop i want the user to be able to give input without the program stopping at a certain point and asking for the input. In other words i want the user to be able to input something at any time that will then be used in the program. I am using Python 2.5, English, Im on Windows XP Service Pack 2.
Thanks for any help you could give.

dshimer

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132 Posts

July 8th, 2008
11:37 AM
#2

Re: While Loop problem

I'm not 100% sure I follow, but it sounds like you are looking for something similar to a C getch().
Check this out and see if there is anything useful.
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Co...n/Recipe/134892

jlm699

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313 Posts

July 8th, 2008
12:26 PM
#3

Re: While Loop problem

I think what he's asking is that he wants his program to simply run constantly. If a user were to press a key he wants it to act like an interrupt so that processing can switch to handle this new event before continuing with what it was doing before.

I would be interested to see if Python can do something like this myself. As far as that link that was provided it is basically like asking for a raw_input in the sense that it waits for the user to enter something before continuing with the next line of code.

kudos

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76 Posts

July 19th, 2008
10:33 PM
#4

Re: While Loop problem

What kind of gui toolkit/lib do you use for your game? I did write a breakout game that uses Tkinter (that comes with python) ages ago and you can see how its done there:

http://bytes.com/forum/thread625365-kudos.html

-kudos

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