abort keyboard input

[Nexarius 18]

Hi

Is there any way to stop io.read() or term.read() once it was called without the user pressing enter? (for example automatically abort after 30sec?)
Is there another way to get the input that allows it?

Thanks for the help

[Molinko 43]

Perhaps you could use a timeout callback that uses event.push to queue a "fake" key event with the enter key. Just an idea..

[Nexarius 18]

Thanks for the quick answer

I tried that and it didn't work.

[ben_mkiv 9]

in this thread payonel wrote how its done in openos 1.6.5+

 

[Nexarius 18]

Thanks

So if I'm understanding this correctly you cannot interrupt io.read() but you can put in inside a thread and then just kill the entire thread to stop it.
I will try that.