User keyboard input without halting the program

[Zhi]

Hi all,

I am wondering how to get a string input from the keyboard without halting the program. The viz.input pops out an dialog and halts the program. The vizinfo box seems unable to get keyboard input at all. Is there a simple way in Vizard or Python to get a string input from the keyboard, similar to the "gets()" function in C language. While the user inputting the string, there is no dialog box popping out and no halting of the program.

Zhi