OnKey_Downer!

CadFather

read through some of the old posts but didn't find anything a one neuron coding master could actually use.

Fredo6 pointed to a thru paint animation routine to achieve a Typematic effect. i looked through the code but i realise i'm not ready for a lobotomy yet.

has no one worked this one out, can't we 'just' keep a button down and have it repeat?

Looking at Pixero's JSmover, (which is a real gem) - i was hoping to add 2 features:

repeat on key press
make it follow a slope if on one. (perhaps combining some sort of drop to intersection procedure)

dreamland i know, but really we have quite a few great plugins that could be 'perfected'!

driven

@cadfather said:

has no one worked this one out, can't we 'just' keep a button down and have it repeat?

you can do with the arrow keys? .e.g. jf_Mover2.rb...

it also works with WASD,
but on a mac, that requires 'ApplePressAndHoldEnabled' to overide the context menu for text replacement options...

knight's game works as well and uses a ray-test for face to detect terrain under foot...

so, both are doable...

john

CadFather

thanks Driven, i know even a few camera moving scripts do it but just couldn't 'get' the code to tweak, so i thought i'd check for some kind of routine/snippet that could be integrated.

this is what i was looking at: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=180%26amp;t=24327#p239409

driven

as far as my tests go that one no longer even works on mac...

all the ones I know involve WebDialogs actively capturing the keys, otherwise you would need to disable all shortcut keys...

john

CadFather

goodness so many scripts could do with this 'basic' functionality.

thanks for testing it - i should have done so, had only looked at the code

fredo6

@cadfather said:

read through some of the old posts but didn't find anything a one neuron coding master could actually use.

Fredo6 pointed to a thru paint animation routine to achieve a Typematic effect. i looked through the code but i realise i'm not ready for a lobotomy yet.

has no one worked this one out, can't we 'just' keep a button down and have it repeat?

Actually, I don't use Repeat key down, but simply the animation mechanism (nextframe method). Keyboard management in the SU API is very rudimentary and repeat does not work consistently.

Fredo

CadFather

i guess one workaround is to make a webdialog tiny enough not to intrude but able to 'catch' the keystrokes repeating...