Checking if More Than One Key is Being Pressed

[Tonydaderp]

I've been trying to do something. If you guys could tell me how to checking if More Than One Key is Being pressed.. It'd be greatly appreciated. maybe I can use keyboard_check_direct? Thanks.

 

[Conbeef]

If keyboard_check(vk_space) && keyboard_check(vk_up){
//code
}

Do you mean like this?

 

[Nux]

 if Keyboard_check(ord("A")) and Keyboard_check(ord("B"))
{
    // do code
}

This will check if keys A and B are held down. And if they are then perform the code nested within

 

[Tonydaderp]

No... I already knew that, but thanks! What I wanted was the Zelda like diagonal movement. When you move up and press right, your sprite changes into the up sprite still.

 

[Nux]

ah that's pretty simple, you can add priority to your keys. The simplest way to do this is:

if keyboard_check(vk_up)
{
    // up sprite
}
else if keyboard_check(vk_down) // up and down have most priority
{
    // down sprite
}
else if keyboard_check(vk_left)
{
    // left sprite
}
else if keyboard_check(vk_right)
{
    // right sprite
}

 

[TheouAegis]

if left or right

if vspeed==0

sprite_index = left or right sprite​

if up or down

if hspeed==0

sprite_index = up or down sprite​

 

[renex]

I typically do this with temporaries.

h = right-left
v = down-up

then you can get the movement direction from a point_direction(0,0,h,v) and poll h and v separately for the sprite properties.