Keyboard Input

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This seems kind of dumb but I'm using an InputAction class to handle my player movement and controls, trying to keep it all centralized, all is well until I try to use an arrow key.



InputHandler() {
    keyboard.set("forward", KeyInput.KEY_W);
    keyboard.set("backward", KeyInput.KEY_S);
...
    keyboard.set("camLeft", KeyInput.KEY_LEFT);
}
   public void performAction(InputActionEvent iae) {
      char c = iae.getTriggerCharacter();
      if (c == 'a') {...



How do I know based purely on the inputactionevent what action is occuring here? I can't use the char because for the arrow keys that wouldn't work and really it seems like I should be using the "backward" and "camLeft" and not looking at the key. I know the old way of handling keys pressed is still available, is it just not practical to use the input system like this? Should I just move the code to the game loop and use the older check all commands to see if they are active setup? It seems like I'm missing something obvious here.
2

You should not have any "if (c==something)" in your actions. Create a new action object for different actions. Probably invoke same methods with different parameters in there…

3

That's kind of what I thought, have to re-vamp how I did that, though i coulda swore I stole that from flagrush, maybe I bastardized it more than I recall.

4

…or Mark decided it was too complicated to start with it right away. Later lessons of flagrush even revise some things that have not been that nice in former lessons…