Clear keyboard-buffer

[Stormy]

Hi guys,

i need a better way to clear the keyboard-buffer than this one:

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WHILE INKEY$ <> "": WEND

regards,

Stormy

[v1ctor]

You could use "while GETKEY <> 0: wend", not that it will speed up anything really..

[VonGodric]

while not len(inkey$)
wend

[lillo]

If too much typing is your problem, you could do:

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#define clear_keybuf    while inkey$<>"": wend

clear_keybuf

[Stormy]

No, the problem is that my program is stucking for awhile. I'am working on an RPG and when every time this this

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while inkey$<>"": wend

will be loaded, the game stucks for a little moment... In DOS-times there was a little interrupt for that necessary...

[Stormy]

It is ok now ! I tried out MULTIKEY and I'm happy with this ! Works so smoothly... =)

[Antoni]

Victor:
Not really a hidden keyword, it's in the keywords list , but you never explained it. And it's in my to do list for the Wiki.....

[DrV]

IIRC, GetKey just returns an integer version of what InKey$ would return... is this correct?

[Antoni]

You are doing the DOS version and dont' know it??????

[v1ctor]

Correct.. after 300 or so runtime functions it becomes not so easy to remember.. i can't remember the number of rt functions either.. nm

[Antoni]

Just kidding...

Well, i did some testing and I can refresh your memory ;)

EDITED:
It removes a char from the keyboard buffer, waiting for it if the buffer is empty and returns it's ascii value. If it's an extended key (so returning 2 chars), it skips the char 255 at the front and returns the ASCII of the second one.