Re: key press events & holding keys down

[Christopher Howard <christopher howard frigidcode com>]

On 03/19/2012 11:02 AM, Chris Vine wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:21:27 -0800
> Christopher Howard <christopher howard frigidcode com> wrote:
> > On 03/19/2012 03:34 AM, Chris Vine wrote:
> > > Since GtkWidget objects have key-press-event and a key-release-event
> > > signals that you can connect to (and from your explanation, clearly
> > > you have connected to), you will probably need to explain why these
> > > don't do what you want in order to get a meaningful answer. Most
> > > people would monitor these in conjunction with
> > > gdk_event_get_keyval() or gdk_event_get_keycode() and keep state.
> > >
> > > Chris
> >
> > I'm currently attempting to code a simple space combat game. In my
> > game it is possible (quite likely) that two keys will be held down at
> > the same time (especially the up arrow and another arrow) e.g. to
> > turn and to accelerate at the same time. Currently I monitor for key
> > press events as you say; the problem is that key press events are
> > only being generated for the last key that was pressed. So if a user
> > attempts to turn and accelerate at the same time, he will actually
> > only do one or the other, depending on which key he happened to press
> > last.
>
> A key remains pressed until a key-release-event for it is received.
> That is what I meant by 'keep state'.
>
> Chris

So, you are saying that if I receive a key-press-event, I should
artificially generate a key-release-event, which will allow more
key-press-events to be generated? How should I go about doing this?

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