Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 05:08:19 08/26/03
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On August 26, 2003 at 07:34:42, dominique LONGBIEN wrote: >Hi there >Is any body use an interruption (i.e. every 200ms) to look at the input buffer >to know if a message from winboard or arena is present ? >If yes, how should i declare this interrupt in C++ for windows ? >Is it a good idea ? > >Thank for any help > >Dominique (adam) There are two usual approaches: Crafty does something like: if(nodes % 10000 == 0 && check_for_input()) process_input(); Zappa sets up a few threads and has one block on fgets. Crafty's is definitely easier, but I think Zappa's is cleaner. YMMV. anthony
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