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General / Re: Space key not read

« on: June 21, 2015, 05:27:58 am »

That's the way keyboards are made. Your problem is called keyboard ghosting.

Oh that's interesting, thanks very much for the help, appreciate it!

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General / Re: Strange Keyboard Relations?

« on: June 20, 2015, 07:13:13 am »

I barely understand what you mean.
When pressing and releasing a key it triggers 3 events: KeyPressed, KeyReleased and TextEntered. The unicode value of 'a' is 97. When using an event, be sure to check the event type before using its values.

Sorry, even as I typed it I barely knew what I was saying.  Your post answered my question though, so thank you!

Edit - Rephrased my issue...I think it's a bit clearer now.

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General / Space key not read

« on: June 20, 2015, 06:37:43 am »

Hey all!

Rephrased issue:

If the sequence of keys being pressed (and held) is Up + Left + Space or Left + Up + Space; the Space key press isn't recorded.  If it's something like Up + Right + Space or Right + Down + Space it's fine.

Tested on my current project, and also the code used in the  "Game from Scratch: Pang in C++" tutorial.

(Original question:)
/* I'm getting a strange read on some of the input key events, as in when I press a key, it's seen as an event, then the release is seen as an event, but then there's one more event.  I implemented a keyToString function to output these keys.

/When I press A, I get A, F13, then A again. (0, 97)
B -> B, F14, B (1, 98)
C -> C, F15, C (2, 99)
D -> D, Pause, D (3, 100)
Return -> Return, N, Return (58, 13)

The numbers in the bracket are the enumerator indices related to the keys as specified by the documentations: http://www.sfml-dev.org/documentation/2.0/classsf_1_1Keyboard.php

I don't think all the keys do this, but these are some of the ones I tested out.

What I don't understand is, what does the event type does the middle key represent? */

Thanks in advance!