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flashing snall

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Posted: 29th Mar 2006 04:50

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IM making a game with 2 players. One personb uses wasd, and the control key, and the other usues the arrowkeys and the returnkey
BUT! when the returnkey is pressed, the other guy cant move his guy around. I dirst tried to put the wasd control in the if returnkey()=1 statment with the arrowkey controls, but that didnt work. SO then i made this.

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do
print scancode()
loop

this told me that thr returnkey had a scancode value of 28!!! so that why putting the wasd control in with diidnt work. Because they each have there own scancode #. Then i tried

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do
if scancode()=17+28
print "IT WORKS!"
endif
loop

but that didnt work either. I tried many variations on that one. DOes anyone have any ideas has to how get past this problem.

dont assume cause ull make an ass out of you and me!

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SirFire

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Posted: 29th Mar 2006 06:01

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You are trying to do things with the keyboard that it was not designed to do. There is a hardware limitation on the number of keys that can be pressed at once, and also pressing a key overrides any other key that is being pressed.

Go pick up a couple of usb gamepads.

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master programmer

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Posted: 29th Mar 2006 08:52

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Quote: "You are trying to do things with the keyboard that it was not designed to do. There is a hardware limitation on the number of keys that can be pressed at once, and also pressing a key overrides any other key that is being pressed."

Only for scancode() my friend. If you use keystate() it works much better, and you can use multiple keys at the same time.

Use these codes for movement:
W: if keystate(17)=1 then do whatever w does
S: if keystate(31)=1 then do whatever s does
D: if keystate(32)=1 then do whatever d does
A: if keystate(30)=1 then do whatever a does
Enter Key if returnkey()=1 then do whatever it does
Control Key if controlkey()=1 then do whatever it does
Arrow keys - if upkey()=1 then ....
if downkey()=1 then ...
if rightkey()=1 then ...
if leftkey()=1 then ...

That should help you quite a bit,

Good luck

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Scraggle

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Posted: 29th Mar 2006 13:26 Edited at: 29th Mar 2006 13:27

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master programmer ... you are mistaken!

What SirFire said is absolutely correct. There is a hardware limit on the amount of keys that can be pressed simultaneously. It depends which keys you are pressing but it can be anything from 3 - 6.

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flashing snall

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Posted: 29th Mar 2006 22:48

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THANK YOU MASTER P!!! I tried it and it worked! YES now my friends wont be disappointed. tiss very annoying when somone was attacking you and you could move...

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret

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Posted: 29th Mar 2006 23:43

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Get a ZBoard. 32 Keys at once.