Hello, I need help with keyboard controls PLEASE

[Xacal]

Hi. I have been experiencing some difficulties while trying to get keyboard controls to run smoothly. For one thing, when I say Event: (Keyboard Event) Player 1 presses up arrow, the movement that I get is kind of jerky, as I can't just hold down the key and have the movement be continuous. This is due to the program ordering the unit to stop after completing the quota of movement for one press of a button. How could I counteract this?
My next problem may be more difficult. I want it to be so that when I press a key, say, D, the unit will attack any units attacking it, and play a correct animation. Any Ideas? Any help would be... well...helpful.

 

[Maker]

Trigger A turns trigger B on when a key is pressed.

Trigger B updates every 0.03 seconds or something.

Temp_Loc_1 = position of unit
Temp_Loc_2 = Temp_Loc_1 offset by something like 32 towards facing of unit
Order unit move to Temp_Loc_2

Trigger C turns trigger B off when a key is released.

You could use a variable to use as the facing, and holding left/right modify the facing variable.

 

[Xacal]

COol; this could help me a lot. But, I still don't really have my answer as to how to get the unit to attack when D is pressed....
Edit; OOPS. I guess I mispoke. I'm actually still confused about stopping the movement from halting all the time. Also, when I associate an attack with an ability, the ability's animation seems to always override the animation that I want the unit to play. Please HElP...

 

[wolfman]

Art - Animation Names. Change that for the ability. Just make it what u want the animation to be. You can just do "attack" to make it use the attack animation

 

[Storyyeller]

For the Attack=D thing, I think you'd either have to use a dummy ability, or change the default hotkeys (if you're doing a singleplayer map)