Re: How to keep a console app busy and responsive?

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From: Michael Harris
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:31

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 in addition..

    while (!dgDone)
    {
        // standard console processing
        //
        INPUT_RECORD lpPeekBuffer = { '\0' };
        DWORD dwNumEventsPeek = 0;
        ::PeekConsoleInput(inHdl,                     // handle to a console 
input buffer
                           &lpPeekBuffer,                  // pointer to the 
buffer for peek data
                           sizeof(INPUT_RECORD), // number of records to 
read
                           &dwNumEventsPeek);        // pointer to number of 
records read
        if(dwNumEventsPeek)
        {
           read the console .. it has events.
        }
      do something else
     repeat..
}

--
Michael


"Helmut Giese" <hgiese@ratiosoft.com> wrote in message 
news:7vtls2tbtoeo4qv75aqhaj8l2e8rvlfrp1@4ax.com...
> Hi Bob,
> many thanks for the info - lots of ways to chose from.
> - Calling FlushConsoleInputBuffer did not change anything
> - going the multi-threaded way looks a bit like too much effort for
> this particular app,
> - so I think I use your polling example
>
> Oh, and thanks for the link to Input Buffer Events.
> Best regards
> Helmut Giese
>

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