Adam Walley: Not really what I was hoping for but I took your idea and built on it so that if the response to the raw_input is an empty string it repeats the pause. Good enough. Thanks!
Adam Walley wrote: > > Hi, Cazaw. > > Welcome to PythonCE. I remember wrestling with similar issues with the > raw_input. AFAIK its features are very limited and it does rather > awkwardly > appear over the PythonCE window. You can, of course, position your text > output with some spacing. > > If you are satisfied with just a pause before the raw_input window appears > then you can import the time module and use the sleep function (although > this tends to make the OS think the app is not responding). I usually > create > a simple loop function instead, when using this method. It would define a > pause function and look something like this: > > def pause(t): > t0=time.time() > while time.time()-t0<t: > pass > > where 't' is the number of seconds to pause (and can be a decimal if > needed). Then you just call the pause function at the point in your code > where you want to wait. > > Unfortunately, I think that any other method whereby (hard or soft) key or > stylus input is used would be non-trivial and requires quite a bit more > effort. > > If you have the time to put into it, I would suggest looking into the > PocketPyGUI package or compiling the SDL library and using that (I have > some > info on using SDL with PythonCE here: watersprite.awardspace.com/python). > Perhaps other list members have some other suggestions? > > Adam. > 2009/10/29 Cazaw <cazaw_...@yahoo.com> > >> >> p.s. - Alternately, if the raw_input could show up in the stdout along >> with >> the displayed results instead of it's own dialog box, that would be just >> fine and eliminate the problem. Whichever way would be easiest. >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/kbhit-type-of-functionality-in-PythonCE-tp26114814p26119052.html >> Sent from the Python - pythonce mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> PythonCE mailing list >> PythonCE@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonce >> > > _______________________________________________ > PythonCE mailing list > PythonCE@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonce > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/kbhit-type-of-functionality-in-PythonCE-tp26114814p26130018.html Sent from the Python - pythonce mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ PythonCE mailing list PythonCE@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonce
