Pausable script

[Ted Flethuseo]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to build a script that writes something every 2 minutes. This
is what I have so far, but I would like to make it so that I can pause
it, with a certain key, and make it continue with another key. When it
is unpaused it should keep track where it left off.

Any ideas how to do this?

40.times do |i|
puts i
sleep(200);
puts "write something"
end

Ted

 

[Luis Parravicini]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to build a script that writes something every 2 minutes. This
is what I have so far, but I would like to make it so that I can pause
it, with a certain key, and make it continue with another key. When it
is unpaused it should keep track where it left off.

Any ideas how to do this?

40.times do |i|
=A0 =A0puts =A0i
=A0 =A0sleep(200);
=A0 =A0puts "write something"
end

You could replace the sleep(200) with a loop doing something like:
sleeping a small amount of time (e.g.: 100ms), checking if there's
user input available, act accordingly and sleeping again.


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Luis Parravicini
http://ktulu.com.ar/blog/