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I was wondering about remapping keys for player configuration. If I had a keydown event for space, and I remapped it to enter, and then I decided to remap it to Left shift, would I have to put remapKey(KEY_RETURN, KEY_LSHIFT); or could I use remapKey(KEY_SPACE, KEY_LSHIFT);?

remapKey(KEY_LSHIFT, KEY_SPACE);

When user press left shift, the key will be translated to the space used by your event.

Awesome!

Now I'm getting a bug. I have a setup so the player can configure the controls, but when I set them to anything other than the defaults, they don't work at all. But the code for when you click the play button is

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remapKey(KEY_UP, controlconfig[1]);
remapKey(KEY_LEFT, controlconfig[2]);
remapKey(KEY_LSHIFT, controlconfig[3]);
remapKey(KEY_RIGHT, controlconfig[4]);
remapKey(KEY_DOWN, controlconfig[5]);
remapKey(KEY_SPACE, controlconfig[6]);

And I have a text displaying the key text of controlconfig[1-6], and it shows the right key.

Check to make sure that your array controlconfig is of type integer.
Also check that when you load the values into controlconfig it is something like the following:

controlconfig[1] = KEY_z;
controlconfig[2] = KEY_x;
controlconfig[3] = KEY_SPACE;
controlconfig[4] = KEY_p;
controlconfig[5] = KEY_l;
controlconfig[6] = KEY_m;

Also have a look at the topic at:
http://game-editor.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1534&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=remapkey&start=0
Which might give you some tips on doing this

Here's what I am doing: I have a picture with keys on it, with filled-regions over them for buttons. On a mouse button down on one of these, it sets a variable assign to a value representing the key. I have another actor 'Assigning' which has a keydown event->any key, with the following code:

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switch (assign)
{
    case 1:
    controlconfig[1] = getLastKey();
    break;
 
    case 2:
    controlconfig[2] = getLastKey();
    break;
 
    case 3:
    controlconfig[3] = getLastKey();
    break;
 
    case 4:
    controlconfig[4] = getLastKey();
    break;
 
    case 5:
    controlconfig[5] = getLastKey();
    break;
 
    case 6:
    controlconfig[6] = getLastKey();
    break;
}
controlconfig[0] = 1;
assign = 0;
saveVars("config.stp", "config");

controlconfig[0] is used to find if the file config.stp exists. I have a text actor displaying the text of the keys (strcpy(text, getKeyText(controlconfig[1]));) and it displays it fine. But when I click on the play button where it should remap the keys, it obviously does something, because the default keys don't work - neither do the ones I set them to. But if I set any keys back to the default keys, those ones work fine.

Just another thought, are you putting the values the right way round into remapKey?
It should be remapKey(getLastKey(), controlconfig[1]);
Where controlconfig[1] is the original key in the game

Looking at your last post, I think you might have the values in remapKey the wrong way round
Try remapKey(controlconfig[1], KEY_UP); in your script

That would be it. That's a thing to remeber with remapKey: get the order right. Thanks for that; I thought I checked that before, but obviously I was wrong.

Now my new problem:
I have it set so if the keys are not the default keys, it remaps the defaults around so they don't still work:

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if (controlconfig[1] != KEY_UP){remapKey(KEY_UP, KEY_LWINDOWS);}
...

But if I set a key to c, and then I set it to d, Both c and d will work. Is there a way I can fix this? Maybe have another array with the previous set keys?

DilloDude wrote:But if I set a key to c, and then I set it to d, Both c and d will work. Is there a way I can fix this? Maybe have another array with the previous set keys?

I have never played with this, but can you set the current setting to null?

I think what I really want is a way to remap each key back to itself. Maybe a for loop that goes through the number of keys, and says

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remapkey(i, i);

would work. I'll try that.

Use getch(num) to grab the key from a looped count.

I think I had the same problem as you, but with the pocket pc keys.
Take a look at the topic on the second page

http://game-editor.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1534&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=remapkey&start=0

“A problem I found is when entering a new key to a key that is already remapped previously, then it can start to cause problems with the keys in the game
The solution I found is before you remap the keys, remap every key in the pocket pc to a key that is not used when running the game.
remapKey(KEY_POCKET_UP, KEY_g);
remapKey(KEY_POCKET_DOWN, KEY_g);
remapKey(KEY_POCKET_LEFT, KEY_g);
remapKey(KEY_POCKET_RIGHT, KEY_g);
remapKey(KEY_POCKET_A, KEY_g); ……………………….
Where the key g is not used in the game.
Also in the Config - game properties – I left all the keys to be remapped blank. When the game starts I use a saved file to load and remap the keys.”

I done this manually but as there are a lot of keys on the keyboard you may want to find a way to loop through these.