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Post by leslie griffin on Dec 28th, 2009, 10:38pm
hi..still a newbie.. if I was controlling a paddle in a breakout type of game and using inkey$(0) to read the keyboard......it does slow the whole programm down to a fraction of what is possible . is there a better way of getting a directional input...thx
Re: inkey
Post by admin on Dec 29th, 2009, 09:11am
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using inkey$(0) to read the keyboard......it does slow the whole programm down to a fraction of what is possible.
INKEY$0 isn't all that slow, I measured it on my PC at just under 400 ns (so you could execute more than 2,500,000 of them in a second!).
If something is slowing "the whole program down to a fraction of what is possible" I don't see how it can be INKEY$(0)! Perhaps you should list the code in question.