On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 06:46:32PM -0300, José Romildo Malaquias wrote: > 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.
Considering that there are curses for Windows (pdcurses[1] and the latest ncurses[2]), would it be too difficult to port such libraries to Windows? [1] http://pdcurses.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ Romildo _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
