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dmcdaid

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Posted: 12th Mar 2010 12:11

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I was wondering if anyone would be able to help me with my Game project?

I'm creating a 'Guitar Hero'-like game, where notes fall and you must hit them as they reach a point at the bottom of the screen. I've pretty much finished.

However, how would i go about setting the F1, F2, F3 and F4 keys as the keys the user would have to press in order to hit the notes.

Right now i am using the up, down, left and right keys but this is extremely impractical...

Please help!

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HowDo

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Posted: 12th Mar 2010 12:41

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scancode will give you a number which you can check to see which F keys as been press, below demo code from help file.

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cls
do
if scancode()<>0
print "key= "+str$(scancode())
endif
loop
end

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Van B

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Posted: 12th Mar 2010 13:40

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You should use scankeys to figure out what the F1 - F4 keys are:

Do
cls
text 0,0,str$(scancode())
sync
Loop

Run that and take a note of any code for a key that you want to use.

Then, with those codes, use Keystate instead of scankeys()

If keystate(f1ID)=1 then blah blah blah

And this means that you can have all 4 keys checked at the same time - scancode does not let you do that, neither does inkey$. So, for the keyboard always use keystate when you need more than one key at a time.

Also, consider the USB guitars for GH2 and RockBand - supporting one of those would be great - I could figure out the controls for you and make a little code snippet if you don't have one. It is ok to grab the keyboard and use the F keys, but if people see that they can use a guitar as well, then they would appreciate your game a lot more I think.