[Gambas-user] how to flush a process stream

[Laurent Carlier]

Le mardi 29 mars 2011 04:33:21, Kevin Fishburne a écrit :
> 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!

Did you try to use a gamepad with sdl component ? because i'm currently 
designing such api for gambas3, i guess it will not be too long before i can 
commit the code.

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