SET TYPEAHEAD

Set the size of the keyboard buffer

Syntax

      SET TYPEAHEAD TO <nKeyboardSize>

Arguments

TO <nKeyboardSize> specifies the number of keystrokes the keyboard buffer can hold from a minimum of zero to a maximum of 4096. The default size of the keyboard buffer is machine-dependent but 16 is the minimum size.

Description

SET TYPEAHEAD defines the size of the Clipper keyboard buffer that caches keystrokes input directly by the user. SET TYPEAHEAD, however, does not affect the number of characters that can be stuffed programmatically using the KEYBOARD command. When executed, SET TYPEAHEAD clears the keyboard buffer and sets the size to <nKeyboardSize>.

When TYPEAHEAD is SET TO zero, keyboard polling is suspended. An explicit request for keyboard input, however, will temporarily enable the keyboard and read any pending keystrokes from the BIOS buffer. Calling NEXTKEY() constitutes such an explicit request. NEXTKEY() reads any pending keystrokes from the BIOS buffer and returns the INKEY() value of the first keystroke read, or zero if no keystrokes are pending.

Seealso

ALTD(), CLEAR, TYPEAHEAD, INKEY(), KEYBOARD, NEXTKEY()