repeating key delay time

[Scott Morrow]

Wow!  That's a great little script.  I substituted rawKeyDown for  
keyDown and it worked with the arrowKeys perfectly.  A MUCH better  
solution than trapping the arrowKey message. Thanks!
-Scott

On Aug 2, 2006, at 5:00 AM, Kay C Lan wrote:

> On 8/2/06, Scott Morrow <scott at elementarysoftware.com> wrote:
>>
>>    Is there a way (within Rev) to adjust the delay interval between
>> when the first Key message is sent and, if the user continues to hold
>> down the key, the subsequent messages.
>
>
> Couldn't see a way as you requested but I tried to approach this  
> from a
> different direction. The following script starts a repeat loop when  
> the
> button is 'down' and continues until the 'keyUp' message:
> ------------------------------------------
> local tMyKeyDown
>
> on keyDown downKey
>  put true into tMyKeyDown
>  put the rect of button "Check" of stack "Untitled 1" into tMyRect
>  repeat until tMyKeyDown = "false"
>    if (downKey = ",") then
>      subtract 3 from item 1 of tMyRect
>    end if
>    if (downKey = ".") then
>      add 3 to item 1 of tMyRect
>    end if
>    set the rect of button "Check" of stack "Untitled 1" to tMyRect
>    wait 1 millisecond with messages
>  end repeat
> end keydown
>
> on keyUp upKey
>  put false into tMyKeyDown
> end keyUp
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
> I just tested this on a button and it nicely moves the button left  
> (comma
> key down) or right (period key down). The trick is in the 'wait with
> messages' so you can capture the keyUp message.
>
> I'm working on adding
>> arrowKey  control for a Pong type game and it would be nice to
>> eliminate that normally useful lag.
>
>
> Unfortunately in the quick time I whipped this up I couldn't get it  
> to work
> with the arrow keys as they didn't seem to send keyDown messages -  
> at least
> not on my Mac PB.
>
> The smoothness of the movement is easily adjusted by varying the 1
> millisecond wait and the 3 units of movement in my example.
>
> HTH
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