Well thank you Ben for your very speedy reply. I'll see what i can do with it.
dan On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 10:06 PM, Ben Iofel <iofel...@gmail.com> wrote: > create a GIOChannel with g_io_channel_unix_new() and then add it to the main > context with g_io_add_watch() > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 12:52 AM Dan Hitt <dan.h...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> HI All, >> >> I'm writing a gtk application and i would like it to listen to stdin >> in the controlling terminal after gtk_main() is called. >> >> So for example, when you type a carriage return in the controlling >> terminal, all the characters which have been typed since the last >> carriage return are gathered up into a string, and the app receives >> some event containing the string, and it has some handler that can >> interpret and deal with it. >> >> This would be analogous to listening for key presses in a window, >> except that they don't come from a window, and instead of arriving a >> character at a time they'd arrive a string at a time. >> >> Now, i imagine it cannot be quite that simple, because that doesn't >> sound like any of the events listed in gdkevents.h. >> >> But on the other hand something along these lines must be possible >> since applications like mpv certainly do listen to their stdin and >> respond to it (as well as listening to characters that are typed to >> their windows). >> >> And there should be a select() or something to make it possible for an >> apparatus such as gtk to do this. >> >> And i don't even know how to google around for a solution :( >> >> So i'd appreciate any hints on how to do this. >> >> (And although it would be awesome to be able to read a character at a >> time from stdin, a line at a time would certainly do, and i'd probably >> have to plan on line-at-a-time anyway for the case when the app was >> launched from a emacs buffer.) >> >> TIA! >> >> dan >> _______________________________________________ >> gtk-app-devel-list mailing list >> gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
