slowing down dinput

What exactly are you trying to do? If you want a way to let the user input text without getting 40 letters by pressing the key once, or other things like a menu where you don't want the selection cursor to fly all over the place, I have a simple solution.

The code only allows only one instance of an action to take place when a key is pressed. For the action to take place again the user has to unpress the key.


bool marker=true;

if(>check if key is pressed down< && marker==true)
{
marker=false;
>perform action<
}
if(>check if key is UNpressed<)
{
marker=true;
}


Edited by - Supernova on November 20, 2000 7:13:24 PM

Time ago I''ve got the same problem when trying to read the left mouse button with direct input. I was developing a sort of GUI for my game and the user input was too fast! The trick is to think that the user-action is not happening until the mouse button is depressed...
You should keep track of the mouse button state and then compare it with the previus one-> if the button was pressed and now is depressed -> do user input!

Hope it helps...