Keypresses

[User137]

const
    VK_UP = $26;
begin
  if key = VK_UP then ...

Tip: You can add Lcltype in uses clause of your Lazarus project, all virtual keycodes such as VK_UP, VK_ESCAPE are there in cross-platform way.

[Carver413]

Tip: You can add Lcltype in uses clause of your Lazarus project, all virtual keycodes such as VK_UP, VK_ESCAPE are there in cross-platform way.

Thanks for that, I knew it was probable in there somewhere. one can get lost digging through all that code and still not find what your looking for.

[asdfarkangel]

Oh well thanks all of you. Writing a Biology test at university today but I will experiment with these functions a little when I'm done with that. Interesting when I learn programming, instead of memorizing syntaxes and procedure/function names and following methods, I just start writing something to experiment with it. I look it up in google if I need a func. or proc. see the syntaxes and correct methodical errors and I learn a lot easier this way. I can not imagine for example that I could have learnt the useage of binary files by just reading the book, and then I would have been able to use it correctly instantly. Altough for my programs written this way in the end I often find out there was a lot lot more easier way. Well often means almost always xD

[deathshadow]

vk_ constants are also in the WINDOWS unit. If you are using SDL, there are the SDLK_ constants which are identical in value to the vk_ ones.

[Brainer]

You can also use GetAsyncKeyState or GetKeyboardState from the Windows API. Here're the links, respectively: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...8VS.85%29.aspx, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...99(VS.85).aspx