GETKEY PRIORITY BY ROSS8653
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ross8653@hotmail.com
icq# 21361440 or nickname ross8653
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So what the heck is getkey priority??? Well its something little
that might help your game or program, and help you to elimate
bugs that you can't figure out where they are. Here is the basic
idea, there are different levels of getkeys so when holding down
one of the keys at a lower level, when you push down a key at a
higher level it will switch to that higher level key. But when
you hold down one at a higher level and then you push one at a
lower level it won't change because higher levels have priority.
And lastly if you hold two keys with the same priority the
getkey will change to 0. Simple right? heh i'll explain

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All examples in this document are referenced by the following
program, i suggest you make it and run it so you can better
understand getkey priority.

ClrText
Do
If Getkey=0
Then Locate 2,1," "   (one space)
Ifend
Locate 1,1,Getkey
LpWhile X=X

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Here are all the different levels

1. F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6
2. (up) (down) (left) (right)
3. shift ctrl optn menu
4. alpha vars ^ esc
5. x,(theta),T log ln sin cos tan
6. Ab/c x^2 ( ) , ->
7. 7 8 9 del
8. 4 5 6 X(multiply) /(divide)
9. 1 2 3 + -(subtract)
10. 0 . exp -(neg) exe
11. AC/on

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You might be wondering why i put ac/on at the bottom right?
Well try this, run the program that i have at the top, push and
hold ANY key on the calc. Now push AC while holding that key,
what happened?? nothing... thats why.

Remember that if you hold down a higher priority and push a
lower level nothing will change.

But if you hold a lower level and push a higher then it will
change to the higher level.

If you hold two or more keys on the same level then the getkey
will change back to zero.


So how will this help you, and why do you care? because you can
create cheats and getkey functions where you have to hold down
two keys at the same time here is how you would do something
basic, to enter this cheat push optn 6 9, yes this is the
cheat for my drugwar game

1->X
clrtext
do
getkey=58 => 2->X
getkey=53 and 2=X => 3->X
getkey=54 and 3=X => 4->X
lpwhile X =/= 4			(lpwhile x doesn't equil 4)
"cheat entered"


But if you want to make one where you have to hold down keys
then run this program. Hold down alpha then push shift.


1->X
clrtext
do
if getkey=77
then do
getkey->A
A=78 => 2->X
lpwhile A=77 and X=1
ifend
lpwhile X =/= 2		(lpwhile x doesn't equil 2)
"cheat entered"

you might ask why i did getkey->A in line 6?
Without that when you push 78 the program might already be
past the part A=78 => 2->X (line 7) and it will hit the
lpwhile, since A doesn't equil 77 it will break out of
that loop and you have to release shift and push it again

So knowing all of this have some fun, and remember always try
to make your game have a lasting game play value. Ways that I
use are save/load game, high scores, cheats, in game help or
menus, and easy button entry or arrows pointing to options that
you can move. And please make your game in ONE file it's not
that hard. If you need to jump to somewhere use lbl's and goto's
I hate it when i get this game that is supposed to be great and
it has 10 files in it so i cant find all my other games. Adding
these options makes your game a little bigger but it's worth it,
I would rather have one great game rather than 10 games that are
just ok and clutter my program list.


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