From: Albert Wagner <alwagner@...>
Date: 2001-08-07T10:06:14+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19266] Re: Ruby/Tk: how to discard excess messages

Thanks, Nat.  That's useful to know.  I didn't realise that no releases were 
being sent.  However, I still have a problem:  I am using the up/down arrow 
keys to scroll.  I want to be able to hold the key down; I just don't want 
presses any faster than I can redraw the  window.

On Monday 06 August 2001 16:41, you wrote:
> From: "Albert L. Wagner" <alwagner@uark.edu>
>
> > An auto-repeat key is sending additional messages while method is
> > still processing first message.  How can I discard the excess
> > messages?
>
> Once you have received a KeyPressed event for a particular key, ignore
> further KeyPressed events for the same key until you receive a KeyReleased
> event for that key.  An auto-repeating key sends multiple KeyPressed events
> without any KeyReleased events until the user actually releases the key.