Thread: clearing the message queue or don't let messages get queued

I thought you were using GetASyncKeyState( ) and everything was working fine?

Okay, here you go!

EDIT: I only changed your main.cpp , but I attached everything.

Originally posted by Leeman_s
One question though, in addition to a plea for help for my program:

When one key is pressed, WM_KEYDOWN is sent. When another key at the same time is pressed, does it send a WM_KEYUP for the key you just had down?

Let me explain why I ask:

In my game, you hold down right, then up -- now they are both down. You let go of the up key and the ship stops moving. The only way my flag for moving right can be set to false is through WM_KEYUP. The ONLY way.

It STILL doesn't work? I have no clue then! It works flawlessly for me. I should take a video with my digital camera just to show you

There are a lot of issues with having a bunch of keys down at once. Sometimes it will overload the keyboard buffer and you will get "phantom" strikes. This will give the appearence of one key being pressed when it really isn't. The converse is true when you have a bunch down sometimes they won't be acknowledged at all.

Let me look over your code again and see if I can see anything? Are you sure you ran the EXE I sent you??

EDIT: I have no clue but you can try taking out the UpdateShip function and just putting the code inline in your main loop.

Code:

  // Check for input
  if(GetAsyncKeyState(VK_LEFT))
    player.x -= player.dx;

  if(GetAsyncKeyState(VK_RIGHT))
    player.x += player.dx;
      
  if(GetAsyncKeyState(VK_UP))
    player.y -= player.dy;

  if(GetAsyncKeyState(VK_DOWN))
    player.y += player.dy;