[SDL] SDL_WaitEventTimeout

[barrett at 9hells.org]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 04:51:40PM -0200, barrett at 9hells.org wrote:
> In my main loop, I do SDL_PollEvent(), and in case there's no event,
> I do a SDL_Delay(1), just to prevent unecessary 100% CPU usage.
> To my surprise, SDL is missing some keys! That shouldn't happen,
> event if my event loop is not well designed, and is lagging to
> catch the events, because (I think) there is an event queue (buffer),
> right?  If I remove the SDL_Delay(), this doesn't happen.

now it gets worse. i reduced the loop to this:

        while(1) { 
                SDL_Event event; 
                if(SDL_PollEvent(&event)) {
                        if(event.type == SDL_QUIT) 
                                break;
                        if(event.type == SDL_KEYDOWN) {
                                int k = event.key.keysym.sym;
                                printf("keydown %d (%c)\n",
                                                k, isprint(k) ? k : '.');
                        }
                }
        }

and it still missing keys sometimes!
how can this happen?

regards,
barrett