From: "Roland Moritz" <hotel DOT moritz AT utanet DOT at>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: How to empty the keyboard buffer
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 17:08:01 +0200
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Eli Zaretskii schrieb in Nachricht ...
>
>On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Roland Moritz wrote:
>
>> And now my question is, how do I empty the keyboard buffer everytime the
>> loop is through, since I don't want, for example, that if a message is
shown
>> for 5 Seconds, and the player pushes some keys, that they will be used as
>> keyboard input the next time the loop is running through, since there are
>> still keys in the buffer...I've tried it with something simple like
>>
>> while (kbhit()
>>   c = getch();
>>
>> But it does'nt work...
>
>The above *is* the way to empty the keyboard.  If it doesn't work for
>you, please post the shortest test program that can be compiled and
>that demonstrates how does it fail.  Please also tell how do you run
>the test program and what do you expect to happen if it did work.

Okay, the shortest test program is the following:

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

#include "allegro.h"

int main()
{
  int c;

  allegro_init();
  install_timer();
  do
  {
    c = getch();
    rest(1000);
    while (kbhit())
      c = getch();
  }
  while (c != 27);
}

It basically does the same that happens in a game loop, but doesn't work
(When I press a button for a longer time, I hear a loud beeping, which
means, that the kb-buffer is full, right?)