Discarding key pressed events.

[Luca Cappa <luca cappa i-medlab com>]

Hello,

in my application I have some key handlers which receive input from the 
user. When the user press a key,
a task has to be executed: this task could require a tiny time slice or 
a longer one. The problem is that if the user
hold pressed a key and the relative task takes a lot of time to be 
executed, my application will be flooded of key pressed events.
I would like to avoid the situation where I receive a lot of "key press" 
events, which force my application to execute a long
time consuming task each time the event is received, and then the 
application is stuck until all the events are "eaten".

How to avoid this? maybe i could delete the keys' event from the events 
queue? Any help?

Greetings,
Luca