From: Manni Heumann <manni DOT heumann AT gmx DOT de>
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Subject: Re: while loops and for loops
Date: 2 Oct 2001 08:56:44 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii wrote: 

>> From: "b279" <b279 AT inetone DOT net> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp 
>> Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 21:32:41 -0400 
>> 
>> is it because of the install_keyboard() function? 
> 
> Probably.  Can someon who knows Allegro please tell? 
> 
> There should be some equivalent function in Allegro to do the 
> same. Look at the Allegro docs, and you will probably find it. 
> 

From the Allegro Docs: 

> int install_keyboard(); 
> 
> Installs the Allegro keyboard interrupt handler. You must call this
> before using any of the keyboard input routines. Once you have 
> set up the Allegro handler, you can no longer use operating 
> system calls or C library functions to access the keyboard. 


> int keypressed(); 
> 
> Returns TRUE if there are keypresses waiting in the input buffer.
> This is quivalent to the libc kbhit() function.