Exit Program when User presses Esc

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Hello,

I am writing a program and would like to know how to make the program exit when the user presses the 'ESC' button on the keyboard

Thanks!

[Insectoid]

Input.KeyDown (key)
exit when key (KEY_ESC)

look into the character control tutorial

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is there way to do this using getchar

[gitoxa]

If you set up a simple program to get a key from the user, you can find the ordinate value of any key they input. Having said this, you can easily find the ordinate value of the escape key. Once this is found, you can simply check the ordinate value of the key the user presses to see if it matches the one ordinate value of the escape key.

Use the ord function.

code:

var Sample : string(1) Sample := "b" ord("A") = 65 ord(Sample) = 98

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elsif question = 'KEY_ESC'
then
exit
doesnt seem to work

[richcash]

The escape key's ASCII value is 27. That means you represent the escape key with chr (27).

Turing:

loop     exit when getchar = chr (27) end loop

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[quote="richcash @ Wed May 21, 2008 4:07 am"]The escape key's ASCII value is 27. That means you represent the escape key with chr (27).

Turing:

loop     exit when getchar = chr (27) end loop

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the problem with using exit is that it exits the loop, I want the entire program to end

[StealthArcher]

If it wasn't so frowned upon, I WOULD say

code:

quit when getchar=chr(27)

[andrew.]

Make a variable called exitgame and have it so that when you want to have the game exit, it becomes true. So each loop would have an if statement before it. Like this:

Turing:

var exitgame : boolean := false if exitgame=false then      loop           blah blah           if getchar=chr(27) then           exitgame := true           exit      end loop end if if exitgame=false then      loop           blah blah           if getchar=chr(27) then           exitgame := true           exit      end loop end if

Something like that.