Jumping Jack Flash

[Richmond]

On 04/07/15 18:14, Richmond wrote:
> On 04/07/15 18:11, Richmond wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Here I go again - replying to my own posting.
>
> I think that what I really need is a way to stop the arrowKeys from 
> auto-repeating [ hmm; what's flushEvents("autoKey") for? ].
>
> Richmond.

I AM a SLOW LEARNER!

I put "pass arrowKey" into all my loops, and "Bingo" . . . .

Of course it does mean that any game-player using the thing will get 
repetitive finger syndrome.

Richmond.