From: Jason Eastham <wipeout AT inlink DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Help with Allegro
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 10:20:03 -0600
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Thank you.
I ended up using

if (keypressed())
  stop_midi();
  clear_keybuf();

Oh, and I changed it to autodetect the hardware. Thanks for reminding me.
Jason Eastham

DeHackEd wrote:

> >
>
> You have a do-nothing loop who's test is to see if the MIDI is done playing.
>
> while (midipos != -1)
> {
> }
>
> Why not make it something like this?
>
> while (midipos!= -1)
> {
>     if (keypressed())
>         break;
> }
>
> And one thing - if your code is to be given around, considder appending the
> files to the EXE, and having install_sound() autodetect the card. If you won't
> be using sound, don't give it a digital card. Anyway...