if(keys[SDLK_UP])
{
//move the player up
}
SDL Keys problem.. Loading from file
Author
Hi I have
Unit8 *keys = SDL_GetKeyState(NULL);
At the moment I can do something like
My problem is I'd like the player to be able to change the keys they use. So for example If I had a text file with
UP: SDLK_UP
DOWN: SDLK_DOWN
LEFT: SDLK_LEFT
RIGHT: SDLK_RIGHT
The values on the right would be used for the respective actions. If I read SDLK_UP into a char array such as char *key[20].
How cn I compare that with keys which is assigned to GetKeyState??
Any ideas
Author
And then do a string comparison such as
char *keys[20] = SDL_GetKeyName()
char *upKey[20] = "SDLK_UP";
if(strcmp(keys, upKey){
//move player
}
I guess that makes sense.
Cheers
char *keys[20] = SDL_GetKeyName()
char *upKey[20] = "SDLK_UP";
if(strcmp(keys, upKey){
//move player
}
I guess that makes sense.
Cheers
Right. Although, you may want to translate the user specified keys to their SDL values at load time and store the ints instead of the strings. Then you can use integer comparisons instead of string comparisons. Unfortunately, there isn't a function to go from the string to the SDLKey, so you'd have to create some kind of look-up table to do the translations. Do-able, but a bit of work.
Quote:Original post by Dave Hunt
Right. Although, you may want to translate the user specified keys to their SDL values at load time and store the ints instead of the strings. Then you can use integer comparisons instead of string comparisons.
I like this idea - and it is not that hard to do either [wink]. Here is a very quick example of one way to approach this problem -
// Have a map of the keys and translationsstd::map< std::string, int > KeyMap;// Have a function to translatevoid LoadKeyConfig( std::string filename );...// Open the file and read in the string name then int assignedvoid LoadKeyConfig( std::string filename ){ std::ifstream IF; IF.open( filename.c_str() ); if( !IF.is_open() ) { abort(); } int var; std::string tempstr; while( IF >> tempstr ) { IF >> var; KeyMap[ tempstr ] = var; } IF.close();}... // If we press escape if( g_keys[ KeyMap["SDLK_ESCAPE"] ] ) { g_done = 1; } // If we press right if( g_keys[ KeyMap["SDLK_RIGHT"] ] ) { // Add 5 to the X X += 5; // If we have this line, it will only move once per key release g_keys[ KeyMap["SDLK_RIGHT"] ] = 0; }...Now that example is by no means the *best* thing to do, but it is just so you can get an idea of how you can go about this. Here is the sample project that you can run to see it in action. If you open up the Test.txt file, you will see two keys defined. Try changing the escape from 27 to 97 ('a'). You will see when you now hit 'A' it will escape, but when you hit escape it does nothing.
One thing to keep in mind is that you must use 'a'-'z' values for the alpha keys, not 'A'-'Z'. That is just the way SDL works offhand with this process. Take a look at sdl_keysym.h in order to see what the translate values are for each key. Good luck!
- Drew
Well, duh! Of course you could use a map. Anybody knows that. ** scratches his head wondering "why didn't I think of that..." ** ;)
Excellent suggestion, Drew.
Excellent suggestion, Drew.
The other thing you could do is simply force the user to use the SDL key numbers, then translate that to an enum number in the programm. The user is going to have to look up what you call [insert key] anyway, so might as well make it easy on yourself.
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