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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / KeyUp and KeyDown events?

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3ddd
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Posted: 20th Apr 2004 20:16
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Is there anyway (in code or via plug-in) to detect KeyUp and KeyDown events? I did not see any event-based functions in the manual.

I'm working on a Super Mario clone to learn DBP and to try to build a general tile-based game engine. It's coming along nicely, but I am having a problem that has to do detecting keyboard events. I am trying to create this effect:

The height of Mario's jump increases if you hold down the jump key (while on the ground). This must not happen once the jump key has been released while in the middle of a jump.
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Scouseknight
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Posted: 20th Apr 2004 20:22
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KeyState() is your answer - has 0 or 1 depending on whether it is up or down.

This code from my Bruce Lee game is checking for W, A, S and D being down :-





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3ddd
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I suppose I can detect a "KeyUp event" by checking to see if a keystate turned from 1 to 0. I was just hopiing there was a more direct way.
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CattleRustler
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dbp is not event driven. you should make a main loop and test conditions within it, branching to subs or functions as handlers.


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walaber
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yup, just use a boolean variable to keep track for yourself.



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