Only fire events at a specific time in C#

Question

I am writing a video game in C#, and I would like to handle certain events (e.g. keyboard/mouse events) only at a specific point in my game loop. For example, is there a way to write something like the following:

void gameLoop()
{
    // do updates
    handleAllEvents();
    render();
}

If an event occurs at some other point in the loop, I would like to wait until handleAllEvents() to handle them. By "events" I mean the standard C# event system, for example:

public event Action<object, KeyboardEventArgs> KeyPressed;

Please let me know if the question is not phrased clearly. Thanks!

Answer 1

Remove the call to Application.Run(), and build up your own message loop. For example like this:

void GameLoop()
{
      while (!exitSignal)
      {
          Application.DoEvents();
          render();
      }
}

You must then ensure, that render will not stay there for so long.

For more info I suggest you to study the Application class, especially methods Run() and DoEvents().