What's up, RMers?

[kyonides]

Not long ago I met with a quite silly or mystic question depending on your current viewpoint regarding RPG Maker's functionality. A user on another board asked scripters if there was a way to check if no key was pressed on any given moment. At first glance you could say right away that it's the standard way it works, it is normal that it all begins with no button being pressed and any Input system is built upon this statement and the need to wait for the gamer to press a button before his (non strictly Input-related) code can call any method to be executed as a result. But how long should we wait before we can actually determine the player is not pressing any button? Since this is messured in milliseconds it could be a problem to fix the "right" amount of time to wait before assuming nothing happened and our code should do anything specific like changing the current character's graphic. Since it's more a matter of taste there might be no good answer but just a bunch of possible answers that might solve this once for all.

Or do you think I am wrong and my reasoning is completely faulty?