From: ChrisKaelin <ck1@...>
Date: 2007-03-19T01:00:06+09:00
Subject: ruby-sdl: How do you poll events?

The code of my raw main loop is below. I'm sure there are better ways
to poll the event queue. Do you have better ideas?
Also I'm not sure about the garbage collect thing at the bottom...

loop {
      offset_x = 0
      offset_y = 0
      if event.poll != 0
	    case event.type
  	    when SDL::Event::QUIT
		  break
		when SDL::Event::KEYDOWN
		  case event.keySym
			when SDL::Key::ESCAPE
              break
            when SDL::Key::LEFT
              offset_x = -5
            when SDL::Key::RIGHT
              offset_x = +5
            when SDL::Key::DOWN
              offset_y = +5
            when SDL::Key::UP
              offset_y = -5
	      end
	    end
	  end

    before = now
    now = SDL::getTicks
    dt = now-before
   # here comes the rendering finally
    player.draw(screen)
    enemies.each{|i| i.draw(screen)}
    screen.fillRect(0,0,640,480,0)
    w.to_sdl(screen, offset_x, offset_y)
    screen.fillRect(0,0,640,480,0)
    ObjectSpace.garbage_collect
    screen.flip
  }