Re: Clearing the key event

FROM : Matt Neuburg
DATE : Fri Jun 30 18:20:31 2006

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:04:02 +1000, "Thuan Seah, Tan" <<email_removed>>
said:
>Hi all,
>
>            I am writing a program where I inherited my class from
>NSResponder. I wrote the keyDown method to handle a keypress 's' which
>will call a function performing an animation (a for loop updating the
>display every frame). While the animation is running, key presses are
>buffered and processed at a later stage of the animation ended. This is
>not quite the behaviour I wanted since the user can the press 's'
>multiple times during the animation and the end result is the animation
>playing over and over again. How do I get around this? Any advice or
>reference is welcome.


Either nextEventMatchingMask:... or discardEventsMatchingMask:... might
prove useful here, I think. m.



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