TCStandardIO - non-blocking I/O cross platform

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Alessandro (Posted 2009) [#1]

Hello, I have a big problem. I'm successfully using stdio pipes to interprocess communication. My problem is Blitzmax and TCStandardIO haven't any method to check if data are available in the std input, using a non-blocking operation (something like "dataAvail()"). I cannot use api specific, since my game will work either on windows or Linux (I work on Linux Mint 6). Please can you help me? Thank you!

Kurator (Posted 2009) [#2]

i would suggest to use threads (they are platform independent) to get async behaviour :)

Alessandro (Posted 2009) [#3]

Yes, thank you, I was checking them just now! They worked perfectly, so I'm wrapping my thread in a "real class" (type). Thank you for the help!