Subj : Help with a JavaScript game
To   : Zarakava
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Aug 15 2011 06:35 pm

  Re: Help with a JavaScript game
  By: Zarakava to All on Sun Aug 14 2011 05:21 pm

 > Hello! I don't know if this'll get answered for a while, but no huge deal.
 >
 > I'm working on programming a javascript/bbs door game, and it's going great
 > up to one point.
 >
 > With the console.inkey() command, no matter what the timeout, it always
 > does a console.pause() afterwards.

console.inkey() should not cause a pause prompt.

 > console.getkey() works fine, but I would really prefer to have it timeout,
 > as I'm having a loop check some conditions every second. Is there a way to
 > get read of that console.pause() after the inkey?

I think the first thing is to find out what's causing the pause. Are displaying
something in this loop? You can always clear the line counter, but I think it's
good idea to find out what is incrementing the line counter in the first place
(and it's not inkey()).


                                            digital man

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