Re: Keyboard Polling Solution

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

Well, there you go! I have not messed with any keyboard input in so long 
I'd completely forgotten about that. But yes, that looks like it would 
do the job.

I'd be curious why you want to poll. Usually, one tries to avoid that, 
but I know I've wanted something going on in the background that might 
stop when the user hit a key. The usual trick would be to have a task 
looking at keyboard input with another task doing the background job. 
Sometimes this wouldn't work with some implementations because the I/O 
operation didn't flag the task as "blocked", so the background would 
starve. Then you might want to resort to some kind of polling.

MDC

Bruce or Tracy Jacobs wrote:
> A version of Get_Immediate does this.  If there is nothing in the
> buffer, it returns
> FALSE and lets you continue on.  
> 

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