sleep w/inkey, certain keys cause processing to pause

[John Esak]

I see you are talking about INKEY.  I don't know why you decided to use this
function, but it is my understanding that it is extremely CPU dependent.
Meaning, you will bring your system to a crawl while using it. That is why
WAITKEY was invneted... Again, it is my understanding that INKEY only has
very limited usage possibilities because it is so tightly CPU bound. I would
avoid it... but perhaps, Ken can clarify further.

John



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Subject: sleep w/inkey, certain keys cause processing to pause


I wrote in about breaking out of sleep command with a keystroke. The inkey
works great, Thanks. The problem I found using inkey is that some keys
actually pause the processing, until another key is pressed.

I know these keys pause the processing (caps lock, screen lock, pause,
numlock, F11, F12,ctrl&", ctrl&:). Some of these are odd and not likely
pressed by accident but (numlock, caps lock) could be a problem.

Is there any way to lock out the keys causing the pause?


Mike Fedko