07-30-2024, 03:53 PM
Wouldn't _KEYHIT simply be easier for this?
INKEY$ returns a 1 or 2-byte string value for user input. _KEYHIT returns that *exact* same value, except in Integer form, rather than string. You can easily convert between the two with the MKI$ and CVI commands. It just seems to me if you're always going to be dealing with 2-byte strings, that it'd probably just be more efficient overall to just use the integer values. There's always extra overhead when dealing with strings, and they're always slower than integers to process and handle, so I'd honestly just _KEYHIT over INKEY$.
INKEY$ returns a 1 or 2-byte string value for user input. _KEYHIT returns that *exact* same value, except in Integer form, rather than string. You can easily convert between the two with the MKI$ and CVI commands. It just seems to me if you're always going to be dealing with 2-byte strings, that it'd probably just be more efficient overall to just use the integer values. There's always extra overhead when dealing with strings, and they're always slower than integers to process and handle, so I'd honestly just _KEYHIT over INKEY$.