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Capturing keyboard events for a limited time

I'm trying to code a kind of simple video game where there are two kind of players: Human Players: They enter an keyboard input CPU Players: A random input is calculated For Human Players there is a ...
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Are events only used for GUI programming?

Are events only used for GUI programming? How do you handle in normal backend programming when something happens to this other thing?
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Callbacks without concurrency? [closed]

To sync on the terms I will first give my perspective on what a callback function in the simplest possible terms: A callback function is a function that is executed as a response to a certain ...
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Use case for async/await?

Background Most of the applications that I write are hour long sequential tests for electronic equipment. The equipment under test has a specification that is a state-machine that looks like... Get ...
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What are the underlying patterns in systems allowing asynchronous operations?

Say I'm working with a system that allows async, nonblocking operations. If I queue up a set of those operations and specify their result buffer references: nonblocking_write( message, write_buffer )...
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In an event-driven environment, how should a “cancel” function abort all further events?

In my iOS app, things are mostly driven by events. The user presses a button The app listens for an external device to be connected to the iOS device Once the device is detected (is connected), an ...