adding timer between pressing hokeys

[Tomb]

hi. i am creating this rpg about my dog, its called Toby's Quest. i have all of the hotkeys set up, just if you hold them down, or press them to fast, the images move to fast and they flash badly. is there some way i can set a delay of like 500 miliseconds before being able to press a hotkey again. I tried adding sleep(500) in the hotkey functions, but that becomes very buggy. i just want the functions to sleep like 500 miliseconds before they can be used again. is there some way i can do this?

[BigDod]

Disable the Hotkey at the start of your function and then reset it at the end using a sleep if required.

[Tomb]

Disable the Hotkey at the start of your function and then reset it at the end using a sleep if required.

how would i disable a hotkey?

[BigDod]

Parameters

key The key combination to use as the hotkey. Same format as Send().

function [optional] The name of the function to call when the key is pressed. Not specifying this parameter will unset a previous hotkey.

Ie

HotKeySet("{ESC}")

Edited January 27, 2008 by BigDod

[Tomb]

Parameters

key The key combination to use as the hotkey. Same format as Send().

function [optional] The name of the function to call when the key is pressed. Not specifying this parameter will unset a previous hotkey.

Ie

HotKeySet("{ESC}")

so if this were the normal function

Func _ScrollUp();UP

GUICtrlSetState($pic1, $GUI_HIDE)
GUICtrlSetState($pic2, $GUI_HIDE)
GUICtrlSetState($pic3, $GUI_HIDE)
GUICtrlSetState($pic4, $GUI_HIDE)

    $GetPos = ControlGetPos($GUI, "", $background)
    ControlMove($GUI, "", $background, $GetPos[0], $GetPos[1]+5)

GUICtrlSetState($pic1, $GUI_SHOW)
EndFunc

actually im still confused

Edited January 27, 2008 by Tomb616

[dabus]

HotKeySet("{ESC}", '_ScrollUp')

Func _ScrollUp();UP
GUICtrlSetState($pic1, $GUI_HIDE)
GUICtrlSetState($pic2, $GUI_HIDE)
GUICtrlSetState($pic3, $GUI_HIDE)
GUICtrlSetState($pic4, $GUI_HIDE)

    $GetPos = ControlGetPos($GUI, "", $background)
    ControlMove($GUI, "", $background, $GetPos[0], $GetPos[1]+5)

GUICtrlSetState($pic1, $GUI_SHOW)
HotKeySet("{ESC}")
Sleep(500)
HotKeySet("{ESC}", '_ScrollUp')
EndFunc

[martin]

so if this were the normal function

Func _ScrollUp();UP

GUICtrlSetState($pic1, $GUI_HIDE)
GUICtrlSetState($pic2, $GUI_HIDE)
GUICtrlSetState($pic3, $GUI_HIDE)
GUICtrlSetState($pic4, $GUI_HIDE)

    $GetPos = ControlGetPos($GUI, "", $background)
    ControlMove($GUI, "", $background, $GetPos[0], $GetPos[1]+5)

GUICtrlSetState($pic1, $GUI_SHOW)
EndFunc

actually im still confused

Here is one way you could do it

HotKeySet("1", "hotkeys");set all hot keys to the same function
HotKeySet("2", "hotkeys")
;more hot keys
Global $HotOK = True;the hot keys will work

Func hotkeys()
    If Not $HotOK Then Return
    $HotOK = False
    AdlibEnable("releaseme", 500);set for the delay you want
    Switch @HotKeyPressed
        Case "1"
            func1;whatever you function is
            
        Case "2"
            func2
    EndSwitch

;might be better to put the ADlibEnable here so that the delay starts from when the func called ends
EndFunc ;==>hotkeys

Func Releaseme ()
    $HotOK = True
    AdlibDisable()
EndFunc

EDIT: added note about moving the position of AdlibEnable

Edited January 27, 2008 by martin

[Tomb]

if i press a hotkey, the only hotkeys there really are so far are {up}, {down}, {left}, {right}, can i disable all of the hotkeys for maybe 500 miliseconds, then reenable them? that is my main goal here.

[martin]

if i press a hotkey, the only hotkeys there really are so far are {up}, {down}, {left}, {right}, can i disable all of the hotkeys for maybe 500 miliseconds, then reenable them? that is my main goal here.

The example I gave does that, at least it stops the hot keys having any effect for 500 mS after any one is pressed.

There are other ways to do it but I would need to know what you didn't like about the way I've suggested already before I could suggest another.

[Tomb]

The example I gave does that, at least it stops the hot keys having any effect for 500 mS after any one is pressed.

There are other ways to do it but I would need to know what you didn't like about the way I've suggested already before I could suggest another.

yours confused me lol.

i keep rereading it, but im missing out on what is going on there.

[Tomb]

actually nevermind i worked out a solution with BMP2RGN.dll

thanks for help guys

it doesnt flash at all now