From: Hartmut Niemann <niemann@cip.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 10:28:20 +0200 (MESZ)

Re: Other event tweakings

> 
> teunis writes:
> 
> >  Got another way?  It -has- to be bitflags as multiple keys can be pressed
> >  simultaneously.
> 
> At nanosecond resolution, `simultaneously' is humanly impossible.  A
> check for simultaneity is thus sanestly done thusly :
> 
>    if (ABS(ev1.time - ev2.time) <= MAX_TIME_DIFF) {
>        /* events considered `simultaneous' */
>        ...
>    }
> 
> Cheers,
> _____________________________________________  ____
>                                                \  /
>   Andrew Apted   <andrew@ggi-project.org>       \/
>   
> 
> 
But you don't poll joysticks that often. (OK, you could generate two
events then , and you probably would) A normal keyboard sends you every
keypress, but an analog joystick might be checked only at 1ms intervals,
and then you come close to pressing simultanously.

Hartmut.

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