 | | Re: IR problems —Mario Beaulieu
| | | | (...) Ralph, one more question. Are there conditions where the word EKEY would wait for input (like KEY)? It seems to happen in my program. Thanks (21 years ago, 29-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
| | | | | | | | | | RE: IR problems —Ralph Hempel
| | | | | (...) EKEY always waits for input. Use EKEY? to see if anything is available... Looking at the source, I see that there is a possiblity that in the time between checking for a character with EKEY? and actually reading it with EKEY, that an error can (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: IR problems —Mario Beaulieu
| | | | | (...) I did not explain my problem properly but you got it anyway! I do use EKEY? before EKEY, but sometimes EKEY seems to block. Thanks for taking your time to look into this. As for the new word (wow!), in Forth-79, there was a word called ?KEY (...) (21 years ago, 31-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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