This could do the trick...I'll give it a try, my only concern is that it might kinda be a CPU hog...

>>>Is there a way to get the items that are in the keyboard buffer?
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>>Spin through with INKEY() to capture a value at a time; it's a destructive read, though so you'd need to reinsert the content via KEYBOARD or API calls to PostMessage() or keybd_event() to get them back to be procesed.