(FAIRLIGHT) sleep w/inkey, certain keys cause processing to pause

[Guy Templin]

Most if not all of Mark Fairlight's replys start with a witty (funny)
saying. I don't think anything was meant by it, just Mark being Humorous.

Guy Templin
Adelphi Kitchens, Inc.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Filepro List" <filepro at adelphia.net>
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: (FAIRLIGHT) sleep w/inkey,certain keys cause processing to
pause


>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Fairlight" <fairlite at fairlite.com>
> To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 11:29 PM
> Subject: Re: sleep w/inkey, certain keys cause processing to pause
>
> > With neither thought nor caution, Filepro List blurted:
>
> Fairlight, What is this supposed to mean. Are you some kind of  wise ass
or
> what? I wrote in asking how to break out of processing that was using the
> sleep command with a keystroke. Everyone said to use the inkey. Well you
> know as well as me, that if the wrong key can be pressed eventually it
will.
> In this case using the inkey if the wrong key was pressed or bumped the
> processing will freeze forever. I am asking for a solution to the problem
> not rude comments.
>
> If you are so damn intelligent, tell me, how to break out of a processing
> using the sleep command where I don't have to worry about someone pressing
> the wrong key and actually freezing the processing. Don't even start on
> about timers, thats not what I asked. Keystrokes, are what I am looking
for.
>
> well
> where is the solution
> come on now
> lets have it
> must be simple
> why would anyone have to write the list about this
> it's just soooooo simple
>
> If this is the kind of response is common of the Fileorp List I think it
> SUCKS. I thought the list was to communicate and get help, NOT to receive
> demeaning comments from someone like Fairlight, who, by the way, I don't
> believe even answred the question that was asked.
>
> Mike Fedko
>
>
> > > 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?
> >
> > I strongly suspect that the processing is not actually pausing, so much
as
> > you're not generating anything INKEY understands, therefore it's still
> > waiting.
> >
> > CapsLock and ScreenLock are both scankey-only.  They don't actually
> resolve
> > to a keysym.  The control codes...I would have to do the actual math,
but
> > offhand I'm guessing that mathematically they don't even work out to a
> > valid character.
> >
> > F11 and F12 are a bigger mystery to me, as I know someone that used to
map
> > Save to F11, so I know fP knows about it.  I can't explain these two
away.
> >
> > Sounds like you're using combinations that filePro is not designed to
look
> > for--mostly invalid control keys and scankey-only keys (caps-lock
> shouldn't
> > work any more than shift, alt, or control) that are really modifiers
> > anyway, not real keys that resolve to a mapping.
> >
> > mark->
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