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General / Smooth character movement with Arrow keys

« on: February 21, 2023, 06:27:46 pm »

Hey!

I tried making a simple character movement with the arrow keys, just with a rectangle moving around the screen. However, when I press the arrow keys, the rectangle moves similarly to how a text cursor moves between text when the arrow key is held: once for one character, then a pause, then quickly through the rest of the characters. That movement is mimicked by my rectangle, moving once and pausing, then continuing to move after that. I thought I could use a while loop to detect when a key is pressed, but I realized I couldn't because the rest of the program would pause while the key is pressed, so I need to make it with an if statement instead of a while loop. Is there a way to make the movement smooth?

I'm not sure how to display code properly so I am just going to do it like this.

    while (window.pollEvent(event))
        {
            if (event.type == sf::Event::Closed)
                window.close();

            if (sf::Keyboard::isKeyPressed(sf::Keyboard::Up)) {
                rectangle.move(0, -0.5);
                y -= 0.05;
                cout << x << ", " << y << endl;
            }
            if (sf::Keyboard::isKeyPressed(sf::Keyboard::Down)) {
                rectangle.move(0, 0.5);
                y += 0.05;
                cout << x << ", " << y << endl;
            }
            if (sf::Keyboard::isKeyPressed(sf::Keyboard::Left)) {
                rectangle.move(-0.5, 0);
                x -= 0.05;
                cout << x << ", " << y << endl;
            }
            if (sf::Keyboard::isKeyPressed(sf::Keyboard::Right)) {
                rectangle.move(0.5, 0);
                x += 0.05;
                cout << x << ", " << y << endl;
            }
        }

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Audio / Re: undefined reference when using audio to play music

« on: February 20, 2023, 06:57:21 pm »

If I have used the "new" version of MinGW in my previous projects, will everything still work if I replace it with the "old" version? Or is there a way to avoid redownloading and having to relink everything?