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From: jshortle@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (John Shortle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Reading the Keyboard
Message-ID: <5946@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 7 Apr 90 20:30:38 GMT
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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I have a question about reading the keyboard from a C program and am a bit 
confused by the numerous programming manuals I have.  What I want to do is the
following:   Change the threshhold and key repeat speeds from within my
program.  Then I will have a loop that does the following: checks for a 
keyboard input; if nothing, continue with the rest of the code in the loop.
if there is an input, figure out what key was pressed, and take appropriate
action (but don't print the character), then continue with the rest of the
code in the loop.  If the user holds down a key, I want inputs to occurs as
often as is specified by the keyboard threshhold and repeat values.  It seems
that the input.device would be the best way of doing this, but I am not sure
how to read the keyboard from the input device.  Is there an easy way of doing
this (without adding an input handler, or should I be looking into a console 
or keyboard device)?  

Thanks for you help.  Please reply through E-mail, unless you think others
will be helped by your comments.

John Shortle (jshortle@jarthur.claremont.edu)