Re: [pygame] newbie: events and timing

[Andrew Straw <andrew.straw@adelaide.edu.au>]

Hi Christoph,

Why can't you do something like this:

buttons = []
button_times = []
while 1:
	for event in get(BUTTONDOWN):
		buttons.append( event.button )
		button_times.append( time.time() )
	lpt_value = get_lpt_value()
	if lpt_value == triggered_lpt_value:
		break

(Written in Pythonic pseudo code.  -- I didn't bother to check the 
names of the functions, etc.)

On Wednesday, April 16, 2003, at 02:44  PM, Jan Ekholm wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Christoph Lehmann wrote:
>
> > Hi
> > I have some python code, where I wait in a loop for a trigger signal 
> > on
> > the lpt port.
> > during this waiting-loop: can I receive any mouse button events? are
> > they logged with some time-stamps, so that I can get, after I left my
> > waiting loop, the info, which mouse button has been pressed, and also 
> > at
> > what time.
> Alternatively you can use a thread for the blocking wait and let the 
> main
> part of your application proceed as normal, at least chewing events. 
> The
> thread can post an USEREVENT to the event queue once it has done what 
> it
> was supposed to do.
>
> Not everyone likes threads though, so if you receive any messages 
> critical
> to using threads you can safely ignore them as FUD. :)
>
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