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by Ian Omroth Hardingham · in Torque Game Engine · 03/25/2002 (8:05 am) · 4 replies

Hi again everyone.
I'm using this:

GlobalActionMap.bind(keyboard, "F8", myfunction)

to bind F8 to myfunction. The problem is: it runs myfunction twice: once on keydown and once on keyup. Anyone know how to avoid this?

Cheers
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Associate Stefan Beffy Moises
#1
03/25/2002 (8:36 am)
Maybe you could use bindCmd(), where you can specify 2 functions - one for keydown, own for keyup...
try to leave one empty ... just search the scripts how to use it...
Or you could handle the problem in your function:
with an if statement like this:
function doIt(%val)
{
   if(%val)
   {
      executeSomeActionHere();
   }
}
... and your code handled in executeSomeActionHere() should only run on keydown...

Associate Ian Omroth Hardingham
Mode 7 Games
#2
03/25/2002 (8:58 am)
bindcmd worked perfectly, cheers.
For anyone who needs to know how, the syntax is:

someMap.bindCmd(inputdevice, "key", "command to run on key down", "command to run on key up");

and it's important to semicolon terminate the commands for this one, unlike straight bind.

eg GlobalActionMap.bindCmd(keyboard, "F12", "foo();", "mop(5,3,2);")

Torque Owner Daniel Neilsen
#3
03/25/2002 (12:26 pm)
The only problem with bindcmd is that you will have to change your options screen code as, I believe, it cannot handle bindcmd keybinds currently.

Torque Owner Matthew Jones
#4
12/28/2002 (8:19 am)
Where is the option dialog code?