Date:	Tue, 9 Jan 2001 13:02:22 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Karsten Schmidt <Karsten DOT Schmidt AT student DOT uni-ulm DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: Problem with kbhit()
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On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Karsten Schmidt wrote:

> I'm trying to detect when the user hits the keyboard. 
> Unfortunately the kbhit() function is always true 
> after the first key has been hit. Therefore I'm not able to
> detect any further hits.

You need to remove the key from the keyboard queue; kbhit doesn't do
that.  So the key stays in the queue and kbhit reports a non-zero
value forever.

You can remove the key from the queue with a call to getkey, for
example.

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