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[gtk-list] Re: Game development - keystroke detection question.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (laur Ivan)
Mon Nov 16 10:34:18 1998
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 14:03:32 +0000 (GMT)
From: laur Ivan <laur.ivan@ul.ie>
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On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Eric Harlow wrote:
>
> Ok, so I started the game after getting many good ideas and I'm quite
> far along except that I don't like the key_press_event and the
> key_release_event. I haven't looked into it, but I'm still working on
> the graphics and wondered if anyone can help me with this - or point
> me somewhere.
>
> Few problems are:
>
> Holding down 1 key and pressing another results in the second key
> being repeated. No indication that the first key is being pressed.
> This is bad when you're fleeing a group of bad guys (full thrust key)
> while firing (missile key). Is there a way to get a list of the keys
> currently pressed?
>
> This would also fix the problem with the shift/ctrl keys where they
> send a "key_press_event" but don't send a "key_release_event".
>
> This is for GTK 1.0 series. Help and pointers appreciated.
>
the usual approach is to read the keyboard directly from the port
(0x60 i think). but you can see lots of (DOS) sources @
ftp://teeri.oulu.fi/pub/msdos. or if you really like digging in the
sources, have a look @ the doom/quake stuff :). you might find soemthing
interesting for xquake for example ;)
Laur
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