From: "DeHackEd" <dehacked72 AT nospam DOT hotmail DOT com>
References: <349EB8ED DOT DCC54887 AT inlink DOT com>
Subject: Re: Help with Allegro
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 19:55:26 -0500
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Jason Eastham wrote in message <349EB8ED DOT DCC54887 AT inlink DOT com>...
>Hello,
>
> I am making a program using DJGPP and Allegro to play MIDIs while
>displaying a Christmas pic.  My problem is that I cannot figure out how
>to check for a keypress while the MIDI is playing.  All the attempts
>that I have made have either not read any input at all, or made a
>repeating drum-like sound in the background.  A copy of my code is
>below.
>
>


You have a do-nothing loop who's test is to see if the MIDI is done playing.

while (midipos != -1)
{
}

Why not make it something like this?

while (midipos!= -1)
{
    if (keypressed())
        break;
}

And one thing - if your code is to be given around, considder appending the
files to the EXE, and having install_sound() autodetect the card. If you won't
be using sound, don't give it a digital card. Anyway...


            and another

crt0.o references crt1.o, and it references main(), which no library has. Oh
dear...