1term::receive(n)               Terminal control               term::receive(n)
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NAME

8       term::receive - General input from terminals
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SYNOPSIS

11       package require Tcl  8.4
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13       package require term::receive  ?0.1?
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15       ::term::receive::getch ?chan?
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17       ::term::receive::listen cmd ?chan?
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23       ::term::receive::unlisten ?chan?
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DESCRIPTION

28       This package provides the most primitive commands for receiving charac‐
29       ters to a terminal. They are in essence convenient wrappers around  the
30       builtin commands read and fileevent.
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32       ::term::receive::getch ?chan?
33              This command reads a single character from the channel with han‐
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36              If not specified chan defaults to stdin.
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38              It is the responsibility of the caller to  make  sure  that  the
39              channel can provide single characters. On unix this can be done,
40              for   example,    by    using    the    command    of    package
41              term::ansi::ctrl::unix.
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43       ::term::receive::listen cmd ?chan?
44              This  command  sets  up a filevent listener for the channel with
45              handle chan and invokes the command prefix cmd whenever  charac‐
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50              The signature of the command prefix is
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52              cmd process string
53                     This method is invoked when characters were received, and
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57                     This method is invoked when EOF was reached on the  chan‐
58                     nel  we  listen  on.   It will be the last call to be re‐
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61       ::term::receive::unlisten ?chan?
62              This command disables the filevent listener for the channel with
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BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK

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KEYWORDS

83       character input, control, get character, listener, receiver, terminal
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CATEGORY

86       Terminal control
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89       Copyright (c) 2006 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>
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