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Subject:	Re: keyboard handlers?
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Date:	Thu, 10 Jun 1999 02:27:57 -0700
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You would need a handler if you wanted to avoid the (minimum?) 1/4 second
delay between the first and consecutive keypresses when a key was held down.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Lars S. Loevlie wrote:
>
> > Can anyone tell me if I have to make this mysterious "something"
> > called a keyboard handler to take keyboard input in any game? Is there
> > any other way to increment a variable WHILE checking for keyboard input
> > but letting the "show go on" if there is none??
>
> If your game is simple enough, you can use library functions like kbhit()
> and _bios_keybrd() to check for keypresses without waiting.  Check out
> the library reference for these functions.

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