Author: Steven Edwards
Date: 09:33:14 08/26/03
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On August 26, 2003 at 08:08:19, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >On August 26, 2003 at 07:34:42, dominique LONGBIEN wrote: >>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 ? >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. Setting up a separate thread is the way to go. It is both more efficient and more portable.
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