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From: lindwall@sdsu.UUCP (John Lindwall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: INACTIVEWINDOW help
Message-ID: <2940@sdsu.UUCP>
Date: 2 Mar 88 06:05:07 GMT
Organization: San Diego State University, Math/Sciences Dept.
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Keywords: Intuition INACTIVEWINDOW ACTIVEWINDOW help


   I am working on an arcade game for our favorite computer.  After playing
with the amiga animation/gels systems I have found them to be nice but too slow
for my purposes.  Following the advice of John Schultz I have implemented my
own stripped down but fast animation system.  On to my problem...

   I am collecting keyboard input through Intuition via RAWKEY messages.  This
means that the key repeat/delay valuesspecified by the user via Preferences
determine the rate at which keyboard events are generated.  The game requires
faster key repreat/delay values than a typical user finds comfortable.  What I
do is use SetPrefs() to reset these values to acceptable values.

   I expected to be able to look for IDCMP messages INACTIVEWINDOW and
ACTIVEWINDOW so that when the user activates some other window (like a CLI)
I can restore the user's keyboard parameters so that their text output does
not look like tttttttttttthhhhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiissssssssssss.

   This is not working.  I get the message and then call a function which
uses SetPrefs() to change the keyboard rates.  Can anyone give me some help?
Is my approach workable?  Thanks.

JOHN: