Holding down direction key locks snake

[Tom Bell]

When holding down a direction key, the snake is locked to the path of the direction key that was pressed and will not be moveable untill the queue of direction instructions are complete. This is a major bug for players who prefer to hold the keys down while moving and makes the game almost unusable! It must be fixed before any release

[Josh Brown (joshbrown)]

This is definitely a major issue and will need to be fixed before 1.0.

[Tom Bell (bushbaby2511)]

This is sort of fixed in my linked branch. It works but is slow to react, prehaps due to getch handling of the input queue?

[Josh Brown (joshbrown)]

I've messed around with your code but I can't figure out how to stop it slowing down the snake's reactions. We must find a way to fix this bug without introducing other serious bugs.

[Tom Bell (bushbaby2511)]

I've fixed this is the latest revision by flushing the input queue, It seems to work fine for me.

[Josh Brown (joshbrown)]

Fixed in lp:~snakes-game/snakes-game/deb, revision 35.