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Re: GET_KBRD(0) doesn't work in Windows NT [message #9876 is a reply to message #9866]

Wed, 27 August 1997 00:00

Thomas Bruckbauer
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Registered: August 1997

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Liam Gumley <liam.gumley@ssec.wisc.edu> wrote in article
<3402E2B3.A9DA971F@ssec.wisc.edu>...
> Under IDL 5.0.2 on my SGI Unix box, the following code will keep
> displaying the message until a key is pressed.
>
> while get_kbrd(0) eq '' do print, 'Press any key to stop'
>
> Under IDL 5.0.2 on a PC running Windows NT 3.51, pressing a key has no
> effect - I have to kill IDL to get out of the loop.
>
> Is this a well known problem with GET_KBRD()? If so, how do I get a
> single keypress in Windows?
>

Hi,

I was curious and tested this on my machine (WinNT 4.0 service pack 3, IDL
5.0.2):
it behaves as expected!

???

I do not know of any setting in IDL that could cause this problem, so maybe
it is NT 3.51?

Thomas

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		Re: GET_KBRD(0) doesn't work in Windows NT By: Liam Gumley on Fri, 29 August 1997 00:00
		Re: GET_KBRD(0) doesn't work in Windows NT By: Thomas Bruckbauer on Wed, 27 August 1997 00:00

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