W/A/S/D/Space Bar Events

[N1ghthawk]

I need to know how to detect presses/releases for the following keyboard actions:

- W
- A
- S
- D
- Space Bar

Any help would be appreciated

 

[Grey Nightmare]

'Supposedly' it's impossible, only the arrow keys can detect releases.

You could detect presses through skills/hotkeys though.

 

[Justify]

For single player there is RtC to achieve this, but that's a quite bad solution imo.

 

[TriggerHappy]

Spacebar detection is only achievable in single player because of desyncs.

As for the rest of the keys, pressing can be detected by giving units spells with the hotkey of the key you want to detect.
But only pressing is detectable, not releasing and holding.

 

[N1ghthawk]

As for the rest of the keys, pressing can be detected by giving units spells with the hotkey of the key you want to detect.
But only pressing is detectable, not releasing and holding.

Damn, well I suppose I could just use the arrow keys, but your saying its not even possible using vJass?

Spacebar detection is only achievable in single player because of desyncs.

My map is single player so this isn't a problem, but how do I refer to the event? (can it be done in GUI?)

 

[Element of Water]

It's not a built-in event - there's a way of doing it by setting the "home camera point" or whatever, I forgot what it's called, but it defaults to your start location (you press space, the camera instantly goes to your start location). What you can do, is, every X seconds, depends how responsive it needs to be (I'd use 0.02), check if the camera position is exactly at the "home" position, and if so, you have your "spacebar pressed" event. You can't detect releases, however, AFAIK.

 

[Pharaoh_]

Yeah, for the Spacebar event, I've also thought of Element of Water's solution, but apparently, that way can be inefficient, because some player may keep his camera hovering over the spacebar point, yet he has no spacebar button pressed. You would need some sort of camera lock to detect that, but still, this is something I haven't thought through enough.

 

[Justify]

Yeah, for the Spacebar event, I've also thought of Element of Water's solution, but apparently, that way can be inefficient, because some player may keep his camera hovering over the spacebar point, yet he has no spacebar button pressed. You would need some sort of camera lock to detect that, but still, this is something I haven't thought through enough.

Then just move the camera by 0.1 to the x-axis in the event and you're done. I don't think that there is a chance of setting a camera position to exactly 0.0 in coordinates (yes, it could happen, but the chance is very small).

 

[N1ghthawk]

Alright, thank you for all your help.

Unfortunately my project will be using a fixed-camera system so this won't work. :*(