Nyarlathotep's Application Thread

[sparhawk]

I've finally breached the secret of the commands! KeyState() pulls in ASCII characters (range: 9, 13, 27, 32, 39, 44-57, 59, 91-93, 96-122), but only lowercase ones (it gives lowercase values whether or not shift is held down).

 

That makes senser. After all, as far as the game is concerned, modifier keys like Shift and Ctrl, don't hold any special meaning, as they do with the regular OS. They are just some keys like all the others. If there is meaning to them, the game must implement it. Most games work like this, because usually it doesn't matter if you press 'a' or 'SHIFT-A' as shift can be an arbitrary function.

[Ishtvan]

You can email one of us your test mod and we can put it up on the ftp.

 

That's great that you figured out how these work! That should help a lot.

 

Is there any way to detect whether a particular mouse button is held, even if it's bound to an arbitrary thing? For example, player binds _impulse42 to mouse 1. Later on, we want to check if the button bound to _impulse42 is being held (in this case it happens to be mouse 1 rather than a keyboard key). Could we do this with these functions?

 

[EDIT: Just read more carefully and it looks like you can look up the impulse with ButtonState? So if you bound mouse 1 to impulse 42, button state would tell you whether the mouse button was still being held down?]

 

It's kind've weird in that KeyState seems to check hardware keyboard keys indexed by ascii value, but ButtonState seems to check keys/buttons that are already bound, indexed by the function they are bound to? For our application, we may only need ButtonState, since it covers the impulses and everything.

[Nyarlathotep]

You can email one of us your test mod and we can put it up on the ftp.

In that case, you may want to check you inbox soon.

 

That's great that you figured out how these work! That should help a lot.

You're welcome.

 

Is there any way to detect whether a particular mouse button is held, even if it's bound to an arbitrary thing? For example, player binds _impulse42 to mouse 1. Later on, we want to check if the button bound to _impulse42 is being held (in this case it happens to be mouse 1 rather than a keyboard key). Could we do this with these functions?

 

[EDIT: Just read more carefully and it looks like you can look up the impulse with ButtonState? So if you bound mouse 1 to impulse 42, button state would tell you whether the mouse button was still being held down?]

Yes, it would. Perhaps you would like to test it yourself?

 

It's kind've weird in that KeyState seems to check hardware keyboard keys indexed by ascii value, but ButtonState seems to check keys/buttons that are already bound, indexed by the function they are bound to? For our application, we may only need ButtonState, since it covers the impulses and everything.

I've been trying to figure out why someone would actually need KeyState() as well as ButtonState(), and the only thing I could think of is if you somehow needed more than 88 keys assigned at a time.

[Ishtvan]

Nyarlathotep's test mod is on the FTP for us to try:

http://208.49.149.118/TheDarkMod/Miscellan...n/Nyar_Test.rar

 

See his post for instructions.

It shouldn't be too hard to figure out. There are two new console commands, keysFromBinding and BindingFromKey--pretty self-explanatory. There are also four new CVars; search for nyar. (key/button)Test is a boolean telling whether or not you want to test KeyState/ButtonState; (key/button)Range is an integer denoting the start of the range that you will see in the top right corner, displayed 16 at a time for your pleasure. I think that should cover everything. Questions? Comments?

[sparhawk]

I guess we can set him up as a team member. Objections? If not, NH can you set him up?

[New Horizon]

I guess we can set him up as a team member. Objections? If not, NH can you set him up?

 

Done.

[Nyarlathotep]

Thanks, mates! I look forward to working with you in full capacity!

[Crispy]

Excellent, welcome aboard.

[sparhawk]

Questions? Comments?

 

Yes. I post them in the programming forum.