animations and keydown

I have been coding in blitz for sometime now and my games are getting more ambitious.
The problem I have is that the players have multiple animation sequences which are becoming tricky to manipulate in the code. I have checked the forums but cannot get what I need.

question1: Whats the best way to handle multiple animations with keypresses. (Without interferring with each other). Case Select ?? or other. Examples would be cool.

question2: Is there a way to detect if NO keys are pressed. sort of keydown (nul).

question3: What about key release.

Like I said I can get very near but the amount of code and combinations seems way too much and I am sure there must be a simpler way.


Any examples please.

i have a variable caled PlayerMode

0=stand still
1=walk
2=jump upp'
3=faal down
4=duck
5=die

iam sticking to the sellect statement.

Apologies if you have already seen this but it may help :
http://www.blitzbasic.com/codearcs/codearcs.php?code=660

Thanks for that. I am now using something similar with a switch to ensure that the state is maintained until the sequence has finished. May be crude but it works.

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Q2 answer: yes simply use the not operator in front of the keydown:

 if not keydown(205) 

or use else inside the if statement:

if keydown(205)
   print"you are pressing me too hard dude let go!"
else
   print"dude im itching can u press the right key?"
endif

Q3 answer: try something like this (sorry if my code is messy)

 if keydown(205)
   ;blah!
   key_pressed=1
endif

if key_pressed=1 then
   print"you released the right key"
   key_pressed=0
endif