Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Repeating multiple keys
Message-ID: <1271@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 16 Dec 87 11:56:23 GMT
References: <209@dalcsug.UUCP> <22036@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <10005@stb.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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[ peter@dalcsug.UUCP (Peter Philip) wants to know how to tell what keys
  are pressed in a game he's writing]
[ bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt) says to use RAWKEY and track it]

michael@stb.UUCP (Michael) writes:
> WRONG!. RAWKEY only tells you what was pressed while you were active. If
> another window was active, is intuition going to tell you about every
> key stroke? Of course not--if it did, any program that used this would
> trigger on everything. You need another way to get the present "Keys pressed"
> state.

The copy protection bandit strikes again.

In practical terms RAWKEY is fine for telling what keys are held down in a
game. If you need more than that, your best bet is an input handler. I don't
think Mr. Phillip needs go that far.
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