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Yoshiman1

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Posted: 25th Jul 2004 05:37

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Is there a way in DarkBasic Classic to check if something is doing something and make it react only once?

For example, if you have

if upkey()=1 then append object animation yada yada

Is there a way to make it append the object animation only once, so that it does it only once while you hold the up key?

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Posted: 25th Jul 2004 06:09

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Sure

Outside your main loop, create a variable like so

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Appended=0

React to the upkey like this:

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if upkey()=1 and Appended=0
   append object animation yada yada
   Appended=1
endif

Setting the variable will stop the upkey being reacted to a second time.

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Ilya

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Posted: 25th Jul 2004 10:11

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and also add this:

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if upkey=0 then Appended=0

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Posted: 25th Jul 2004 11:35

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Err, no.

That change makes the upkey only active once while the key is held down, rather than only running the code once ever when it is pressed.

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