GameMaker (Solved) I need help getting the Constant of a certain keyboard character

[Evanski]

So the enter key is vk_enter.

what is the Constant of "\"

The UTF8 code of it is 220.

Im using this in a switch statement like so:

switch(keyboard_lastchar) //what to do based on certain keys
    {
       
        case(ord(220)) : text += "\\"; break;
       
        default: text += keyboard_lastchar; break;
    }

but it gives the error of needing the Case to be a Constant.
I cant use

ord("\")

because it turns the whole line into a string.


So how do I write it so that I can get a input for pressing the "\" key

 

[Binsk]

You can just use the key code without the ord and it will work just fine.

The issue is using a function inside of the case.
Using ord("\\") is identical to just using 220.

 

[Evanski]

You can just use the key code without the ord and it will work just fine.

The issue is using a function inside of the case.
Using ord("\\") is identical to just using 220.

Thanks

 

[jo-thijs]

So the enter key is vk_enter.

what is the Constant of "\"

The UTF8 code of it is 220.

Im using this in a switch statement like so:

switch(keyboard_lastchar) //what to do based on certain keys
    {
    
        case(ord(220)) : text += "\\"; break;
    
        default: text += keyboard_lastchar; break;
    }

but it gives the error of needing the Case to be a Constant.
I cant use

ord("\")

because it turns the whole line into a string.


So how do I write it so that I can get a input for pressing the "\" key

You can just use the key code without the ord and it will work just fine.

The issue is using a function inside of the case.
Using ord("\\") is identical to just using 220.

1) The function "ord" returns the ASCII code of a characer, not the UTF8 code, so ord("\\") returns 92, not 220.
2) "keyboard_lastchar" contains a character, not a number. You need to have a case "\\" instead.
3) I'm not sure if the key code for the \-key is consistent over keyboards, but for me it's 226.

EDIT: nvm point 1
EDIT: I still get 92 returned from ord("\\") and 92 seems to be the UTF8 code of \ when I look it up as well. Why did you think it was 220?

 

[Evanski]

1) The function "ord" returns the ASCII code of a characer, not the UTF8 code, so ord("\\") returns 92, not 220.
2) "keyboard_lastchar" contains a character, not a number. You need to have a case "\\" instead.
3) I'm not sure if the key code for the \-key is consistent over keyboards, but for me it's 226.

EDIT: nvm point 1
EDIT: I still get 92 returned from ord("\\") and 92 seems to be the UTF8 code of \ when I look it up as well. Why did you think it was 220?

I had keyboard_last key read back to as a string, pressed the key it gave me 220

but my problem was that my code wasnt allowing \ to be a valid key to press, so it works just fine as ord("\\")