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Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 07:56:20 -0700
From: "Anne Compton, Andrew/David Gasson" <brainstorm AT lightspeed DOT bc DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: Key Detection in Allegro
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J.E. wrote:

>  I tried using kbhit() to check
> the key buffer, but it would still just sit there waiting with getch().
> I am assuming that kbhit() is working fine, but I need an alternative to
> getch().  

	J.E., since you're using Allegro, why not use keypressed()and see if
that helps?  This is what the documentation has to say about it:

	Returns TRUE if there are keypresses waiting in the input buffer. 	This
is equivalent to the libc kbhit() function.

> 
> Also, I've been having some problems linking Allegro.  About 50% of the
> time it links fine, but sometimes Rhide says this:
> 
> no errors
> The Error was: PERMISSION DENIED  (EACCESS)
> 
> Then, it creates a file with a 000 extension that runs when renamed to
> an exe.  

	Weird!  Actually, I had the same problem when linking Degui.  Doug
Eleveld and I never figured out why.  The problem seemed to go away when
I reinstalled the newest version.  Go figure :-)