On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Rutger ter Borg <rutger@terborg.net>wrote:
Andrew Sutton wrote:
A couple of years ago there was an SoC idea to extend Asio with user-input. This seemed like it may have been a pretty good idea. I think it would be great if, minimally, Boost provided some mechanism of interacting with a shell in raw input mode--in a well-designed and portable way, of course :)
Do you mean something like http://tinyurl.com/yf2sb64? I.e., I think it is covered as a case in the Chat example (at least for POSIX).
Probably not. Asio is still reading from input as a stream (more or less) rather than responding to input events from the keyboard. The original project idea is here: http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?Google_Summer... Andrew Sutton andrew.n.sutton@gmail.com