Clearing Mouse/Keyboard Buffer when using Playsound.

[KAGEY]

If I am using playsound, using the SYNC flag, is there a way of clearing the mouse/keyboard buffer, to stop keys/clicks being queued up?

 

[palbano]

I don't know for sure but I am unaware of any API to block the message queue. So let's look at other ways of accomplishing your goal and if someone else shows how to block the message queue you can RF my post

You could use proprietary messages to mark the start/stop of the sound and eat all the messages that arrive in your windows procedure in-between. If your using MFC you would override CWnd:reTranslateMessage()

SendMessage(m_hWnd, WM_USER_STARTSOUND, 0, 0L);
PlaySound(...);
SendMessage(m_hWnd, WM_USER_ENDSOUND, 0, 0L);

Don’t forget to change to the hourglass (busy) cursor during this time.

Another technique would be to use a worker thread and synchronization but that seems overkill.


-pete
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