[Freeswitch-users] How to deal with user pressing extra keys? flush_dtmf? session::flushDigits?

[Anthony Minessale]

session:flushDigits() right before you collect DTMF and you will never
get any old dtmf


On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Wes <wes-fs at 499x.com> wrote:
> I'm writing an ivr script in lua, and using playAndGetDigits in a couple
> different places.  Both places just take a single digit to continue on.
> If the user presses 2 digits, it seems as if the second digit is being
> queued and it's being processed in the next call to playAndGetDigits.
> Often the extra digit is invalid, so when it tells the user to press a
> certain key, it follows immediately with the message "invalid key", due
> to the extra key being in the "queue"...
>
> is this anything I can protect against?   I found a flush_dtmf, but it
> is not very documented:
> http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Misc._Dialplan_Tools_flush_dtmf
>
> and I also found this:
> http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Session_flushDigits
>
> but calling it before and after playAndGetDigits didn't *seem* to
> help... should it?
>
> script here:
> http://pastebin.freeswitch.org/16584
>
>
>
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