continuous machine gun fire when button is held down

#1 Daddie,

I think you can add a code like above in processTick method of your fire component:

int elapsedTime;
public virtual void ProcessTick(Move move, float dt)
{
if (Keyboard.GetState().IsKeyDown(Keys.Space))
{
elapsedTime += Game.Instance.Engine.GameTime.ElapsedRealTime.Milliseconds;
if (elapsedTime > 200) //it creates 5 fires per second
{
CreateNewFire();
elapsedTime=0;
}
}
}

#2 Hi Patryck.
That looks like it'll get the job done. Thanks!

That being said, is that the only way to accomplish this?

I'm presently using the inputMap.BindMove functionality to map several different buttons to fire (Space on windows, Shoulder Triggers on a 360 Controller), as I was hoping to maintain some level of platform agnosticism.

What I've currently got is more or less the following:

inputMap.BindMove(gamepadId, (int)XGamePadDevice.GamePadObjects.LeftTriggerButton, MoveMapTypes.Button, 0);
    inputMap.BindMove(gamepadId, (int)XGamePadDevice.GamePadObjects.RightTriggerButton, MoveMapTypes.Button, 0);
    inputMap.BindMove(keyboardId, (int)Keys.Space, MoveMapTypes.Button, 0);

.....

public virtual void ProcessTick(Move move, float dt)
{
    if (move.Buttons[0].Pushed)
    {
         Fire();
    }
}

I was hoping there was some way to use the ProcessTick's move parameter to figure out if the button is still held(as Pushed seems to only provide the "just pushed" functionality).

But again, if this isn't doable, your way seems like it'll work great.

Thanks again!

#3 Your if statement should test as true as long as the button is held. I use interfaces but my button code looks like this and the "else" part of the statement only returns if the button is released.

For example

//button 1 pressed
                    if (move.Buttons[1].Pushed)
                    {
                        I1ButtonPressed.Value = true;
                        I1ButtonHeld.Value += 1;
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        I1ButtonPressed.Value = false;
                        I1ButtonHeld.Value = 0;
                    }

(the held part of the code is so I know how long the button was held down fighting game stuff).

#4 Hi Matthew, thanks for the reply.

I did some tests, following your advice, and I found something really strange.

I moved my Bindmoves from Button[0] to Button[3] (I'm already using 1 and 2), and my continuous fire began work just as I'd intended.

For the sake of clarity, here's what my (now functional) code now looks like.

inputMap.BindMove(gamepadId, (int)XGamePadDevice.GamePadObjects.LeftTriggerButton, MoveMapTypes.Button, 3);
    inputMap.BindMove(gamepadId, (int)XGamePadDevice.GamePadObjects.RightTriggerButton, MoveMapTypes.Button, 3);
    inputMap.BindMove(keyboardId, (int)Keys.Space, MoveMapTypes.Button, 3);

.....

public virtual void ProcessTick(Move move, float dt)
{
    if (move.Buttons[3].Pushed)
    {
         Fire();
    }
}

Thanks again for the advice!