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keyboard buffering
I'm currently working on a simple 2D game, and almost everything's complete expect for one disturbing problem. I decided to use keyboard for controlling the human ship:
case WM_KEYDOWN:
..if (!keyBlock)
....poManager->ReceiveKeyP
....keyBlock = true;
..return 0;
what the poManager does is to simply call another class' member function to do keyboard processing. (a set of switch-case statements that test which key has been pressed. -like UP, DOWN arrows, etc..)
A timer assigns the false value to keyBlock every 50ms.
The problem is when I'm controlling the ship, say I press the left arrow key, and hold it down. And then, just as every computer gamer does, I wish to go diagonally (left and up), and press the up arrow key. Unfortunately no. I keep going only left.
Is there any clean way to do this.
(I don't use directx, native win32 api)
case WM_KEYDOWN:
..if (!keyBlock)
....poManager->ReceiveKeyP
....keyBlock = true;
..return 0;
what the poManager does is to simply call another class' member function to do keyboard processing. (a set of switch-case statements that test which key has been pressed. -like UP, DOWN arrows, etc..)
A timer assigns the false value to keyBlock every 50ms.
The problem is when I'm controlling the ship, say I press the left arrow key, and hold it down. And then, just as every computer gamer does, I wish to go diagonally (left and up), and press the up arrow key. Unfortunately no. I keep going only left.
Is there any clean way to do this.
(I don't use directx, native win32 api)
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I guess this stuff uses MFC, but anyway, the idea should solve the problem.
thanks.
thanks.
Perhaps you should keep a list of boolean 'keyblock' variables, one for each key, and then test only the keyblock variable associated with that key in the WM_KEYDOWN message.