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Article #416Re: Time restriction on data entry
From: John Hutchinson
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 21:25
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 21:25
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In article 1@acad.drake.edu, jr2921r@acad.drake.edu () writes: >I am writing a short program in QuickBasic 4.5 which requires the user to input >an answer to a question. However, I only want to give the user a few seconds >to perform the data entry. Is there an easy way to do this using the >INPUT statement? I don't believe you can use INPUT for this as it ties up the system until the user presses Return. Rather, I think you would have to write a routine for scanning the keyboard inside your timer loop, exiting when a keystroke is detected. This would work fine for single character replies, but not if the user had to type in multiple characters. Any other ideas from someon else? --- ___________________________ John "HUTCH" Hutchinson _________________________ _________________ Fair Dinkum Technologies Member - IAAD _______________ ________________ "No worries, mate... it's from Fair Dinkum!" _______________ ____________ email: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov GEnie: FAIR-DINKUM _____________
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Newsgroups: alt.lang.basic Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!lanl!ilmen!hutch From: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson) Subject: Re: Time restriction on data entry Message-ID: <1993Jan7.212543.8012@newshost.lanl.gov> Sender: news@newshost.lanl.gov Reply-To: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory References: <1993Jan7.091656.1@acad.drake.edu> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 21:25:43 GMT Lines: 24