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If key is pressed...

by Tom Perry · in Torque Game Builder · 08/19/2005 (7:20 am) · 4 replies

Hiya
I got T2D a few days ago and love it. I have a question though and I couldn't find the anwser searching. Is there a comand to check to see if a key is being pressed? Thanks if you can help.
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Torque Owner Teck Lee Tan
#1
08/19/2005 (9:14 am)
Welcome! :)
There's no built in function that will tell you if a key is currently being held down, but there's an easy workaround. The keybinding allows you to set one function to be called when the key is depressed, and another when it is released. Simply have the keydown function set a flag, and the keyup function unset said flag. You can then check for the flag's status to determine if the key is being pressed.

Torque 3D Owner Tom Perry
#2
08/19/2005 (9:16 am)
O yea lol, don't know why I didnt think of that! thanks a lot.

Torque Owner Teck Lee Tan
#3
08/19/2005 (10:16 am)
To be fair, I didn't think of it either, when I started off. Someone pointed me in the right direction early on. :)

Torque 3D Owner Matthew Langley
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#4
08/19/2005 (10:22 am)
Binding the down and up event commands can be very useful like that :)