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Subject: Re: Reading the keyboard without a window.
Summary: whats wrong with keyboard.device ?
Keywords: keyboard,read,easy?
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Date: 2 Mar 90 01:45:58 GMT
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In article <9670@cbmvax.commodore.com> mks@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (Michael Sin
>half of intuition in a way) you can do the simple (and documented) thing
>of opening and reading from the keyboard.device.  See the RKM on methods.
>There are even ways of finding the key matrix in a bit array which tells which
>keys are down and which are not.  The matrix can even be used while intuition
>is running.
>
>Now, remember that this is not the system friendly way to do things.  It should

Why not ? Whats wrong with opening the keyboard.device for an intuition
program ? I do this to get the currect state of a key via READMATRIX. Which
I want so I can know whether a key is pressed NOW as opposed to
when the message was sent. Otherwise I have to deal with the messages one
by one and if one takes longer to process then to key in, the next keys
will already be buffered/remebered events. These aren't events I always
want to process.

 If you hold down a key it begins to repeat, I want to ignore the messages
sent to me by the autorepeat after you have lifted your finger from the
key. How do I do that if they come faster than I can process them ?

If there is a better, more supported way please tell me!


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