Key Down event in Actors Draw

[foleyjo]

Is there a way to script the keydown events. I've searched the forums but can find anything that I understand does this.

What I want to say is

If (keydown = leftarrow ) then xpeed = -2;
if (keydown == rightarrow) then xpeed = +2;

I also want to say if these 2 keys are not pressed xspeed = 0;

but..... only if the player is not jumping.

I think I know how to code all this other than the capturing of the key presses

[savvy]

this is a very interesting and usefull bit of code actually...

at the start of your draw script you need to write..

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char* key = GetKeyState();

then in order to see if a key is pressed use...

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if(key[KEY_LEFT]==1)
{
xpeed-=2;
}
if(key[KEY_RIGHT]==1)
{
xpeed+=2;
}


then to set the speed back to 0 use...

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if(key[KEY_LEFT]==0&&key[KEY_RIGHT]==0)
{
xpeed=0;
}


this is how its done

if you want to get a keyboard key, you need to use [KEY_w] lower case keys instead of capitals, you can find all of them in the game-editor documentation.
(go to help then documentation)

to restrict these to if its NOT jumping you need to use a jumping variable.. or if jump is 0 for example. (if jump is 0 the player cant jump so is probably jumping)
so..

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if(jump!=0)
{
//codes here
}


the use of != makes it say.. if jump is not equal to 0.

savvy
(+1 if this helps)

[foleyjo]

Thanks Savvy

I think this might give me that little bit of extra control of the player that I'm looking for.



(+1'd as it does help)