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Key repeat?

Started by YodaTheCoder Oct 13, 2001 at 2:18 AM 3 replies 450+ views

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Oct 13, 2001 at 2:18 AM

Curious as to how I may end this bloody (that''s with some British emphasism) key thing.. You know when you push a character, it inputs it, waits a little, then starts an input loop? Well, I''ve been trying to get rid of that while I use the ''a'' and ''d'' key''s to move my figure around the screen. Any functions? ~Jesse "Sleep is to me as honest is to lawyer."

Oluseyi

Oct 13, 2001 at 2:38 AM

That''s what DirectInput is for, largely. You can also look into the WM_KEYDOWN window message.

Bad Monkey

Oct 16, 2001 at 1:37 AM

another way to do it (again without DirectInput) is to use the GetAsyncKeyState(...) function.

This will tell you whether a key is down or up at the moment you call it... so just stick this call in your game loop, or in a timer function, or wherever you feel like checking your keys... i don''t care

playmesumch00ns

Oct 17, 2001 at 7:10 AM

Just use DirectInput. The SDK''s help files tell you everything you need to know, and once you''ve got round the pain of setting up objects etc it''s very easy to use =]

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