[Windows] time-out when writing while reading

My expectation is, that when having the following code

'use strict';

const tk = require('terminal-kit').terminal;

tk('TEST\n> ');
tk.inputField({
    history: [],
}, (err, input) => {
    if (err) {
        throw err;
    }
    
    console.log('Your input: ' + input);
});

tk('TEST2\n');

I’d get an output of

TEST
TEST2
> |

with the cursor at the pipe, or at least

TEST
> |
TEST2

But terminal-kit fails with the error

C:\Users\marco_000\tmp>node test.js
TEST
> TEST2
C:\Users\marco_000\tmp\test.js:10
        throw err;
        ^

Error: .getCursorLocation() timed out
    at Terminal.getCursorLocation (C:\Users\marco_000\tmp\node_modules\terminal-kit
\lib\Terminal.js:1118:50)
    at init (C:\Users\marco_000\tmp\node_modules\terminal-kit\lib\inputField.js:198
:8)
    at Terminal.inputField (C:\Users\marco_000\tmp\node_modules\terminal-kit\lib\in
putField.js:840:2)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\marco_000\tmp\test.js:6:4)
    at Module._compile (module.js:570:32)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:579:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:487:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3)
    at Module.runMain (module.js:604:10)

[cronvel]

Thanks for reporting. I assume you are using Windows from what I see in the error log (C:.) Windows terminals are awful, so I guess it doesn’t support retrieving the cursor location.

I will try to patch that soon, if it is possible…

[cronvel]

@vrachels ??? I don’t get it… Writing to STDOUT is not supposed to trigger STDIN events synchronously, and BTW there is no thread. Windows does not work the way it should. Anyway, I trust you and I swapped the 2 lines.