[Haskell-cafe] unbuffered raw keyboard input on Windows

[David Barbour]

You could try the SDL package to support user input.

2011/7/6 José Romildo Malaquias <j.romildo at gmail.com>

> Hello.
>
> I want to write a Haskell console application (a game) in ghc where the
> user will interact using the keyboard. I need to read the keys as soon
> as they are typed and without echoing to the console.
>
> Although Haskell provides this capability in the standard libraries
> (using hSetEcho and hSetBuffering from System.IO), it does not work on
> Windows due to a bug (http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2189).
>
> I have tried installing packages like vty, hscurses, and ncurses, but
> they did not install on Windows.
>
> Which workarounds are available for that?
>
> Romildo
>
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