Heres an alternate method if you're interested. It removes the need to worry about repeat rates and overqueued messages.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11957935/Walker.livecode On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 6:10 AM, Paul Dupuis <p...@researchware.com> wrote: > On 7/4/2015 4:47 AM, Richmond wrote: > > One of the children on my Summer course was having 'problems' with > > animating a 'person' > > to jump [ think "Super Mario"]. > > > > Well, I don't know what he is doing this weekend, but it took me all > > of 15 minutes to knock together a basic walker-cum-jumper: > > > > > https://www.dropbox.com/sh/tyt4o1md51bfair/AABThCCgJkqLQvz1e-NRQGg7a?dl=0 > > File: Walker.zip > > > > HOWEVER, there is a slight snag insofar as that having been bashing > > the left arrowKey, when I bash the up arrowKey (to generate a jump), > > the character jumps, but then continues to execute the code stored > > from my pressing the left or right key for far too long than is > > necessary. > > > > The same thing happens if I press the left key repeatedly, then the > > right key once. > > > > SO, what I need is some sort of INTERRUPT code so that when I press a > > new arrowKey all previous information fed by my key bashing gets lost. > > flush the pendingMessages of the queued arrowKey messages you no longer > want (see 'the pendingMessages' and 'cancel' entries in the dictionary) > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
