sleep w/inkey,certain keys cause processing to pause

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at bestweb.net
Thu Apr 14 09:37:08 PDT 2005


Quoting Howie (Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:28:34 -0400):

> If we can get back to the topic at hand -
>
> Why would any key cause the processing to pause?
>
> Sure certan keys (like shift or alt) by themselves would not break out
> of the sleep loop but _no_ key should cause the processing to freeze.
>
> Exactly which keys are you refering to?

I wonder if the API that filePro uses to check if there is a keystroke
available returns true, while the API to read it blocks waiting for a
keystroke?

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