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Keyboard input Windows

Alexander Dahlin · 2016-04-08T11:49:52

Hi, quick question. How do I handle multiple keystrokes in Windows? At the moment I use the messageloop, and for every WM_KEYDOWN I check which key got pressed (translate it into an enum) and add it to a list with pressed keys. Then in my GetKeyDown method I loop through the list of pressed keys and return true if the key are in the list. But it seems like only one key gets registered every frame. If I hold down a key it gets registered, but if I hold down one other key at the same time, only the new one gets added. So is this a Windows thing? Should I do it in another way?