[Pysdl-devel] Request for feature :)

[David C. <D. C. <si...@te...>]

In writing my little app, I've run up against a bit of a issue - I
don't know if it's appropriate for inclusion in pySDL or not.

I check the event queue a couple of times per second with
events_poll(). I'm really only interested in the event that's
occurring at the moment of the poll, but I'm finding that (for
example) a quick mouse motion across the window is filling up the
queue with many events, each of which has to be grabbed from the queue
sequentially. As a result, a mouse motion and then a click may take
ten seconds to register with my program, as I poll() myself through
the queue.

What I'm looking for is an events_flush(), which would empty the queue
when called. I realize that calling it after each poll() will result
in jerky input response, but that's fine for my little hack. Other
options would include writing an events_get() for each event type, or
IGNORING and then re-ENABLING each event type as it happens. Does
anyone have a way around this, or is a new method needed?

David Clark
si...@te...

Preliminary pySDL documentation:
http://www3.telus.net/futility/futility/docs/pysdl/index.html

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