How to change controls for a game.....

[amz_best]

What is it you are trying to achieve?
The ability to change controls in a game

for example:

Turing:

Input.KeyDown (blah)      if (KEY_BLAH) then        blah = true       end if %to something like Input.KeyDown (blah)     if (Button chosen) then         blah = true     end if

What is the problem you are having?
I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA HOW TO ACHIEVE IT.


Describe what you have tried to solve this problem
N/A


Please specify what version of Turing you are using
Open turing 1.0

[Tony]

Oh, you must have some idea... you are half way there!

code:

Input.KeyDown (blah)      if (KEY_BLAH) then        blah = true       end if

What's the type and value of KEY_BLAH?

Reading through documentation is typically the first step to understanding what's going on -- Input.KeyDown

[amz_best]

^Not exactly, i've already gotten dat far xD
what im looking for is a way to change (key_blah) to something else, like in a game, you change the moving up button to "w" instead of "KEY_UP_ARROW", YEAH, i wasnt clear... but dat is wat im looking for
ofcourse, while code is running, without closnig and re changing code...

[Tony]

KEY_UP_ARROW is a constant, which has some value.

code:

put KEY_UP_ARROW

[amz_best]

Turing:

var UAK : string :=  KEY_UP_ARROW var control : array char of boolean put "Up arrow key?".. get UAK loop Input.KeyDown (control) if control (UAK) then Draw.FillBox (0, 0, maxx, maxy, black) end if end loop

^This code will not work...


i need an idea of a way to change the CONTROL of moving a player to something else without closing turing and reprogramming.

[Dreadnought]

What is the type of UAK?
Can you use that type for the index of an array?

[amz_best]

i am fairly new sir... and i can say... idk wtf u just said. But i found something out about these "ch" and "char" variables and i might be able 2 get it working!

[Dreadnought]

So Input.KeyDown will give you an array indexed (the index is the position of a value in the array) by characters (hence the "char") where each entry is either true of false (indicating whether or not a key is down).

The reason we can use characters to index an array is because they are actually represented as numbers by the machine (see the ord function).

You have the right idea in the code above; get a character from the user that will correspond to "UP" and check if it is pressed. The issue is that you are getting a string from the user.

A string is a sequence of characters (to the machine it's just an array of characters). But we can't use a string for the position of something (what position would "hello" have?) instead we want to get a single character.
This is where we use the char type you found. It is a single character.

Let's try changing that string to a char:

Turing:

var UAK : char := KEY_UP_ARROW var control : array char of boolean put "Up arrow key?" .. %UAK := getchar() get UAK loop     Input.KeyDown (control)     if control (UAK) then         Draw.FillBox (0, 0, maxx, maxy, black)     end if end loop

Hey it works! kinda....
When we hit a key (like the up arrow) the key we pressed is printed (for the up arrow it prints E with an acute accent) and then we have to press ENTER. You might say "Bah, I can work with this", but we can do better.

Enter the Input.getchar function. It gives you a single character the user inputs.

Here's a little example:

Turing:

loop     var ch : char     ch := Input.getchar ()     % Wait a bit so we don't spam the window     Time.Delay (50)     put "You entered:", ch end loop

Hopefully this is more helpful than my previous post.

[amz_best]

Turing:

%-Declare vars-% %-------------------------------- var y : int := 100              % var gottenCH: boolean:= false   % var ch : char                   % %-------------------------------- loop     %get only a button     if gottenCH = false then     put "Enter Move Circle Up: "..     ch := Input.getchar ()     gottenCH := true     end if             Time.Delay (50)      drawoval (100, y, 100, 100, blue)         %i didnt think dis would work lol     if ch = Input.getchar () then     y += 1     end if     end loop

EDIT: I GOT IT 2 WORK XD yay lol but i idk how to make it moar than 1 char... BTW, i used ur code and made it work for only 1 button, but i need moar "1 buttons"....