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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 01:46:24 GMT
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Erik "Tower" Ytterberg wrote:
> 
> We are having some trouble reading input from the keyboard. If you press
> more than one key the program ignores it. We have looked at the examples
> that comes with Allegro, and we canīt find anything that differs from our
> code. Whatīs the secret??
> 
> We are checking the keyboard several times during our main itterative  loop,
> using the key[ THE_KEY] command.
> For example:
> 
> if(key[KEY_CONTROL])
>     a=true;
> if(key[KEY_SPACE])
>     b=true;

Does it work in the examples?  Because it could just be your keyboard...

If it does, just post more of the snippet (the one you did has no
errors).  It is possible that there is a subtle error somewhere else
(you are calling install_keyboard right?)

-Mike