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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Quick question regarding entry via keys and delays and making it so it doesn't keep flicking options on/off when you just try to tap the button once!!!

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Someone
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Posted: 7th Mar 2004 16:12
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Uhh, help please?
It's really beginning to bother me...
Surely theres some quick function or somethign so I can have
IF KEYSTATE(59)=1
and it not flicking on/off all the time because I can't hold it for less than 1 60'th of a second each time...

I was going to set up a timer variable to count down a milisecond or something, over a couple syncs, but I figure theres a better way?

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Oops, forgot to mention, I'm using DBC.

& heres the exact code by the way



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Posted: 7th Mar 2004 16:46
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rem At the top of your program
dim Button_Delays(200)


rem in the do loop
for a=1 to 200
if button_delays(a)>0 then button_delays(a)=button_delays(a)-1
next a

IF KEYSTATE(59)=1 and button_delays(59)=0
button_delays(59)=50
IF AltCam=1 THEN AltCam=0 ELSE AltCam=1
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Posted: 7th Mar 2004 16:55
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Use some code to check if the key is up. Here's an example to show you what I mean.



Hope I helped...
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You can place a loop and do nothing until the user stops pushing the button:

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Posted: 7th Mar 2004 17:26
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Hyritcher, thats just what I was after, does the job perfectly, thanks.

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err, aki duck's might work better tho.. but wouldn't that cause the entire game to freeze?

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Glad I could help.

P.S. It's Hyrichter, not Hyritcher...lol
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Posted: 7th Mar 2004 17:47 Edited at: 7th Mar 2004 17:47
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This is what I use, it works with no problems like freezing.

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This is the code I use

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"but wouldn't that cause the entire game to freeze"

yep, which is why it's better to use a method like hyrichter's

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Hey Hyrichter,

The code you posted works great with very little code needed to be added to my program.

Thanks

I modified it a little bit to be able to include any key press by replacing

if keystate(59) = 0 then keyup = 1


with

if scancode() = 0 then keyup = 1
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Posted: 21st Mar 2004 14:49 Edited at: 21st Mar 2004 14:52
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This is a way to do it without hardcoding the number.......

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@PowerFang
wont that only work with the last key pressed?

-many FPS games you are hitting many keys at the same time... so it might not work 100% of the time... you could prolly make it a function, to check a variable (if you have multiple toggles)

-what i use is similar to hyrichter's... but mine was about 12 lines of code... so this is a little better


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