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Oh gotcha, that makes sense.

I run into that problem sometimes, and use a manual input blackout. Not sure how applicable that is for your case, but the general logic is like:

update(int state) {
  if (blackout) {
    if (!state) blackout = false;
  } else {
    ...poll state etc etc...
  }
}

Then when there’s a modal change, I set blackout nonzero and it will stop processing new input until the input state goes clear again.