[Gambas-user] how to flush a process stream

[Kevin Fishburne]

I'm reading input from a gamepad by using code such as:

pad_device = Exec ["cat", "/dev/input/js0"] For Read As "Gamepad"

Public Sub Gamepad_READ()
   ' Process the gamepad input.
End

The problem is that analog stick movements create a LOT of read events 
which are generated far faster than the frame rate of the application. 
How can I clear the events queued by the Gamepad stream?

Also, how can I continuously read events from the stream until it is 
empty? I might want to clear it like that so I can ignore some events 
and process others. Thanks!

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