As mentioned, you can grab the game loop code from the forum and it will do all the loop and setup as written (including dispatching updatescreen)
Hope you get a brain storm and find another method. (or a brain tsunami maybe, bigger is better) The walk, picking and beer sounds like a good idea, think i'll do the same and make mine of the root variety. On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com>wrote: > On 05/09/2012 04:36 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > >> Oh, btw, don't know if/when it will come put but there is supposedly an >> "updatescreen" message in the works (basically the same thing as the game >> loop but coded at the engine level) so there will be a built in loop that >> can be used for this sort of thing at some indeterminate time in the >> future. >> > > Ha, Ha; the problem, as I am sure you are aware, is NOW. > > Thank you very much for all your helpful suggestions; I will now go out > for a long walk, pick some flowers, > have a glass of beer, and hope that "it" comes to me in a flash. > > >> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Mike Bonner <bonnm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Another option might be to write an external that does the polling and >>> dispatches a message when the shift key is pressed, and there might be >>> other methods of course. Hopefully someone else has a better solution. >>> >>> Either way, unless rev adds the feature sounds like you may have to bite >>> the bullet and figure out a less than great method. As far as "on >>> shiftkeydown" if you do go with the loop method you can of course >>> dispatch >>> your own messages but this still requires polling so its all a matter of >>> semantics at that point. >>> >>> ______________________________**_________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/**mailman/listinfo/use-livecode<http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> >> > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/**mailman/listinfo/use-livecode<http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
