Inkey and Sleep

[Bob Stockler]

I no longer have any of the tread to which this belongs,
but earlier I suggested a solution to the last problem
posed in it, which was to test for the "acceptable" key
strokes and loop if inkey didn't return one of them.

At the time I didn't have the time to post an example of
what I meant, but jut got a few free minutes and wrote one.
I'm not sure how the original poster was using his routine,
but this shows how to prevent the hangup he experienced:

  @MENU    If: 
      1  Then: declare Lets ; Lets="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
      2  Then: declare Nums ; Nums="0123456789"
      3  Then: declare Skys ; Skys="[ENTR][HELP]"
      4  Then: sh=" 1" ; j="1" ; show popup "\n  Waiting a while.  \n "
  Loop     If: 
      5  Then: show sh ; sleep "1000" ; xx(1,*)=inkey
           If: NOT Lets co xx and NOT Nums co xx and NOT Skys co @sk
      6  Then: sh=sh { j ; goto Loop
      7  Then: clearp ; show popup "\n  Done Waiting.  \n "
      8  Then: show "Press \KZ to Quit: " ; wk=waitkey ; exit

Note that INKEY will hold _only_ the key that was last pressed
before it's executed.

Bob

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