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Multiple Key Presses - Cocoa Events - JordanReed - Jun 22, 2012 12:54 PM
This may be a really simple fix, but I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm trying to use events (with keyDown and keyUp) to get user input, but I can't seem to get more than one key pressed registered at once. I have an array of bool values for each key so I can set the state of each key, but after looking all over the internet it doesn't even look like I can register multiple key presses with keyDown and keyUp. What is a simple way to register keyboard input for a game? Thanks!!
RE: Multiple Key Presses - Cocoa Events - OneSadCookie - Jun 22, 2012 02:18 PM
You're doing it right!
Code:
#import <Carbon/Carbon.h> // for kVK_* names
- (void)keyDown:(NSEvent *event)
{
unsigned keyCode = [event keyCode];
if (keyCode < 128) keysDown[keyCode] = YES;
}
- (void)keyUp:(NSEvent *event)
{
unsigned keyCode = [event keyCode];
if (keyCode < 128) keysDown[keyCode] = NO;
}
- (void)whereverYouUpdateTheStateOfYourGame
{
if (keysDown[kVK_ANSI_A] && !keysDown[kVK_ANSI_D]) { /* move left */ }
if (keysDown[kVK_ANSI_D] && !keysDown[kVK_ANSI_A]) { /* move right */ }
if (keysDown[kVK_ANSI_W] && !keysDown[kVK_ANSI_S]) { /* move up */ }
if (keysDown[kVK_ANSI_S] && !keysDown[kVK_ANSI_W]) { /* move down */ }
}What are you doing wrong?
Be aware that not *every* set of simultaneous keys will work (hardware limitation).
RE: Multiple Key Presses - Cocoa Events - JordanReed - Jun 23, 2012 07:41 AM
Oh wow, I think I had my keyDown and keyUp functions all wrong. This is so much better, and now it's working! I was having this problem:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1151516/multiple-keys-held-down-in-cocoa-os-x
my code was very similar to that. Thanks for the help!