NeHe + Keyboard

Are you using Windows ?. If so, you may try GetKeyboardState () API function. It updates the key states (including mouse button's states) into an array of 256 unsigned char.

You may replace the code which updates the individual key states by one line which invokes this function, although I have that function invoked in the main game loop. Try not to mess with the window procedure as much as you can to increase portability.

I am using Windows. The Nehe base code already updates an array of keys pressed, but that does not help me. I want to add the pressed key to a string that I show on the screen. I could loop though the array and find the key that was pressed and append that to the string, but that would take lots of time. I thought that there would be an easier way of doing it.

brain21

Looping through the array every cycle would be very expensive in terms of processor time, and completely unnecessary. You need to listen for WM_CHAR messages in your Windows procedure. The wParam parameter contains the character code, which you can cast to a char and append to your string. The Caps Lock problem is handled for you by Windows; the character code you're sent will be either uppercase or lowercase, depending on the state of the Caps Lock key. You also get some very useful information in the lParam, like the repeat count and the previous state of the key. Have a look in the MSDN for it. Just don't forget to call TranslateMessage in your message loop before you call DispatchMessage, otherwise things won't go smoothly...

Thanks iNsAn1tY, That work exactly how I needed it to! I don't know why I was missing that TranslateMessage in my loop.

Thanks again!

Brain21