From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,46a82ee84423d8fc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Norman H. Cohen" Subject: Re: How do I make HOTKEYS in ADA? Date: 1996/10/14 Message-ID: <32626229.7C51@watson.ibm.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 189346843 references: <3256B8C7.18F9@access.hky.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: ncohen@watson.ibm.com newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) Date: 1996-10-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Jon S Anthony wrote: > Well, yes, but I didn't read that as acceptable either. What you are > suggesting is some sort of "loop based scenario". But this could > cause odd and unacceptable timing skews: check for character. Nothing > at this moment. Drop to next part of loop. Do this work (might take > a while). Mean time user is hitting key wondering what the #@&% is > wrong. Finally get back to check for character... Let a separate task poll for key presses. -- Norman H. Cohen mailto:ncohen@watson.ibm.com http://www.research.ibm.com/people/n/ncohen