Highline

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Was using highline for a program I am making for learning/fun. I got it
working perfectly but I have made it hit a limit which I don't know how
to get past. I want it to be able to use get_charter outside the
console.

Is this possible with highline or is there another library I can use
that will have this ability?

require 'rubygems'
require 'highline/import'
require "highline/system_extensions"
require 'win32/sound'
include Win32
include HighLine::SystemExtensions

char = 0;
while char.chr != "z"
  char = get_character
    if char.chr == "a"
      Sound.play('C:\Users\rubiest\Desktop\Sounds\ask_mr_hat.wav')
    elsif char.chr == "s"
      Sound.play('C:\Users\rubiest\Desktop\Sounds\drugs_x.wav')
    elsif char.chr == "d"
      Sound.play('C:\Users\rubiest\Desktop\Sounds\screw-u_x.wav')
    elsif char.chr == "f"
      Sound.play('C:\Users\rubiest\Desktop\Sounds\respect_x.wav')
    else
      print "Now exiting"
    end
end

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HighLine is really focused towards console interactions, so it probably won't be of much help outside of that environment.

If you are wanting to read characters off of some IO-like interface for Ruby getc() may help. If you mean that you wish to capture keystrokes in a GUI environment, you'll need to look at a windowing toolkit.

I hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II

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On Oct 9, 2010, at 1:19 PM, Ruby Program wrote:

Was using highline for a program I am making for learning/fun. I got it
working perfectly but I have made it hit a limit which I don't know how
to get past. I want it to be able to use get_charter outside the
console.