How do I prevent a Key being pressed down all the time?

[William de Smet]

Hi Bernd,

You were right about the local variable.
Now it works perfectly: if you keep the arrowkey pressed down it is
only send once!

Thanks!

And yes, the race is on again!

greetings,

William

2008/9/27 BNig <niggemann at uni-wh.de>:
>
> Hi Andreas and William,
>
> Andreas that is very nifty and works for me, it seems though you left out
> the local variable.
> William you would have to script the other arrowKeys if you use them in your
> program.
>
> This works for me in a stack script:
>
> ---------
> local pressed
> on arrowKey theKey
>    if pressed = "" then put false into pressed -- first round
>    if (theKey = "Right") and (not pressed) then
>        move img "dummy" relative 30,0
>        put true into pressed
>    end if
> end arrowKey
>
> on rawKeyUp keycode
>    if keycode = 65363 then put false into pressed
> end rawKeyUp
> -----------
>
> cheers
>
> Bernd
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