- if IO.select([$stdin], nil, nil, 1)
- Ncurses.getch
- else
- nil
+ ## INSANTIY
+ ## it is NECESSARY to wrap Ncurses.getch in a select() otherwise all
+ ## background threads will be BLOCKED. (except in very modern versions
+ ## of libncurses-ruby. the current one on ubuntu seems to work well.)
+ if IO.select([$stdin], nil, nil, 0.5)
+ c = Ncurses.getch