al_wait_for_event
void al_wait_for_event(ALLEGRO_EVENT_QUEUE *queue, ALLEGRO_EVENT *ret_event)
Wait until the event queue specified is non-empty. If ret_event is not NULL, the first event in the queue will be copied into ret_event and removed from the queue. If ret_event is NULL the first event is left at the head of the queue.
See also: ALLEGRO_EVENT, al_wait_for_event_timed, al_wait_for_event_until, al_get_next_event
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