Re: listening to stdin in the controlling terminal after gtk_main is called

[Dan Hitt <dan hitt gmail com>]

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 <iofelben 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 hitt 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
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