From:	"Roland Moritz" <hotel DOT moritz AT utanet DOT at>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	How to empty the keyboard buffer
Date:	Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:45:59 +0200
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I want to program a game, where Keyboard input is handled throught getch();
there is a mainloop, which looks something like

if (kbhit)
{
  c = getch();
   if (c == etc...
}

And now my question is, how do I empty the keyboard buffer everytime the
loop is through, since I don't want, for example, that if a message is shown
for 5 Seconds, and the player pushes some keys, that they will be used as
keyboard input the next time the loop is running through, since there are
still keys in the buffer...I've tried it with something simple like

while (kbhit()
  c = getch();

But it does'nt work...Maybe there is a way to turn off keyboard input at
all, so that the keys pressed are not stored in the kb-buffer?
I would appreciate your help alot!

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