Wait for input; Console.ReadLine analogue

Elements Silver
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I need some analogue of Console.ReadLine() in C# because as soon as I build and run a project, command prompt pops-up and dissapears immediatelly. So, I can’t even see the results. I’ve found a way to do it in vailla swift

let stdIn = NSFileHandle.fileHandleWithStandardInput()

but I receive "Error (E46) Unknown identifier “NSFileHandle” in silver. I assume there is another way to do it.

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NSFileHandle should work fine. do you have Foundation in gather import section?

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Nope, I don’t have. Where can I find it? I can’t do “import Foundation” because it couldn’t be found.

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Hmm, what platform is your project for? Cocoa, i assume? of course Foundation and NSFileHandle only exist on Cocoa. on .NET, you could do Console.ReadLine, fore example.

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Sorry, but I’m confused a little bit. I’m toying around with Swift-like language in .NET project. I just want to write swift on windows. So, yes, I don’t have Cocoa, but .NET. How can I achieve “wait for input” behaviour in .NET project using Silver?

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Look at how its done in C#, then use the same types and calls in Silver/Swift. Silver doesn’t include any Cocoa libraries, you have to use libraries from the platform you’re targeting.

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“Swift” is the language, “Cocoa” vs “Java” vs “.NET” is the platform. If you are working on .NET, you will need to use .NET APIs (same as you would use form C#), if you work on Cocoa, you will use Cocoa APIs (same as from Objective-C). Foundation and NSFileHandle are Cocoa APIs, so they are not available on .NET, only on Cocoa.

The .NET API for this is Console.ReadLine().

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Finally I got it. Thank you guys!

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