Jumping Jack Flash

[Richmond]

On 04/07/15 15:10, Paul Dupuis wrote:
> On 7/4/2015 4:47 AM, Richmond wrote:
>> One of the children on my Summer course was having 'problems' with
>> animating a 'person'
>> to jump [ think "Super Mario"].
>>
>> Well, I don't know what he is doing this weekend, but it took me all
>> of 15 minutes to knock together a basic walker-cum-jumper:
>>
>> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/tyt4o1md51bfair/AABThCCgJkqLQvz1e-NRQGg7a?dl=0
>> File: Walker.zip
>>
>> HOWEVER, there is a slight snag insofar as that having been bashing
>> the left arrowKey, when I bash the up arrowKey (to generate a jump),
>> the character jumps, but then continues to execute the code stored
>> from my pressing the left or right key for far too long than is
>> necessary.
>>
>> The same thing happens if I press the left key repeatedly, then the
>> right key once.
>>
>> SO, what I need is some sort of INTERRUPT code so that when I press a
>> new arrowKey all previous information fed by my key bashing gets lost.
> flush the pendingMessages of the queued arrowKey messages you no longer
> want (see 'the pendingMessages' and 'cancel' entries in the dictionary)
>
>
>

Well, I tried flushEvents("all"), flushEvents("keyDown"), 
flushEvents("autoKey")
to no effect . . .

Mind you, I am not sure if I can understand what the dictionary says 
about flushEvents,
or maybe the fact is that the entry really isn't comprehensive.

Richmond.