Maybe this would better belong in the modding or FRED subforum, please move if so.
In FotG we needed to detect specific physical keypresses in a couple of places, and in such a case key-pressed doesn't work because the player might have bound their keys differently. I wrote a very simple script to allow that to be done, so I might as well post it here in case someone finds it useful:
#Conditional Hooks
$Application: FS2_Open
$On Game Init: [
keypressed = function(keyname)
if keypresses[keyname] then
return 1
else
return 0
end
end
keyreset = function(keyname)
if keypresses[keyname] then
keypresses[keyname] = nil
end
end
]
$State: GS_STATE_GAME_PLAY
$On Gameplay Start: [
keypresses = {}
]
$On Key Pressed: [
local key = hv.Key
keypresses[key] = true
]
#End
Put that in keypresses-sct.tbm, after which you can use the two functions just like key-pressed and key-reset:
$Formula: ( when
( >
( script-eval-num
"keypressed('Backspace')"
)
0
)
( play-sound-from-table 0 0 0 "78" )
)
+Name: PlaySoundOnBackspace
+Repeat Count: 1
+Interval: 1
$Formula: ( when
( has-time-elapsed 5 )
( script-eval "keyreset('Backspace')" )
)
+Name: ResetBackspace
+Repeat Count: 1
+Interval: 1
The function returns 0 if the key has not been pressed, and 1 if it has been, hence the use of the > operator and script-eval-num.
