[fpc-pascal] Re: KeyPressed

[Lowell C. Savage]

Thanks for the replies Michael, Eduardo, and Martin!

It looks like I'll have to see what functions are being called to use the 
Video and Drivers units and see what I can do to work around them or 
something.  Ugh.  Oh well, better that than another dead end.

Thanks!

Lowell

Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote, in part:
> > I'm using: CRT, IO, DOS, Video, Printer, Graph, and Drivers.
>
>This is the problem. You can't use the Drivers, CRT and Video unit together.
>Each of them tries to catch keystrokes, and they will randomly receive them.
>(depending on thread usage).
>
>You should use only Video or only CRT or only Drivers
>(though it can be that drivers and video work together)
>
> > And I don't care about multi-platform, so the C library DLL looks kind 
> of like
> > the way to go.
>
>It will still cause problems, because the C library also will interfere 
>with the
>Video and CRT units...
>
>It's planned to base the CRT unit on the video unit (so they would work 
>together),
>but until now no-one had time.
>
>From: marcov at stack.nl (Marco van de Voort)
>
>crt.keypressed etc. However that doesn't change the picture that Michael 
>paints,
>since the units must still be USES'd, and thus the init code that hooks 
>input/output
>are run.

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