Move Pacman/Snake automatically

[vamsi360]

Hi,

I have developed a pacman game in SFML.

The pacman is moving through the grid now only when the keys are pressed.

How can I change that to move Pacman move automatically one block of a rid at a time? That is, the pacman will be moving and arrow keys are only used for direction change. This is the behavior in a normal pacman or a snake game.
I have used delay and sleep only to end up unsuccessful.

Please help me.

[TheCake]

Hi,

What you should do is setting the direction where your pacman is moving with the key events and then, update your pacman position every X milliseconds in your main loop.

Here is a good article on different implementation of game loop and timing : http://www.koonsolo.com/news/dewitters-gameloop/