Quite addicting. Good job! One thing that can be improved is the movement. If you hold right, then tap down, then release down, holding right the entire time, I expect to move down only once then continue moving right. But currently you will keep going down for as long as right is held. It makes it quite hard when you're trying to get a good score on time
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> Quite addicting. Good job!
Thanks!
> If you hold right, then tap down, then release down, holding right the entire time, I expect to move down only once then continue moving right. But currently you will keep going down for as long as right is held.
Unfortunately, this is a limitation with Quil/JavaScript (e.g. see the official Quil example which exhibits a similar behavior when you press/hold multiple keys and release one by one: link) and I was unable to work around it. You will experience similar misbehavior even if you press/hold some completely unrelated (unused) key.
If somebody reading this know if there's a solution for this problem, I'm eager to hear it.
Hi, it is related to my previous comment:
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There is a solution. You save pressed keys into the state and then you reduce on top of them.
You can see the implementation in this framework based on top of Quill.
https://github.com/Kimbsy/quip/blob/master/src/quip/input.clj
(defn key-pressed
"Reduce applying a handler function:
(f state e)
accross the collection of `:key-pressed-fns` in the current scene."
[{:keys [input-enabled? scenes current-scene] :as state} e]
(if input-enabled?
(let [default-handled-state (default-key-pressed state e)
scene-handlers (get-in scenes [current-scene :key-pressed-fns])]
(reduce (fn [acc-state f]
(f acc-state e))
default-handled-state
scene-handlers))
state))
(defn key-released
"Reduce applying a handler function:
(f state e)
accross the collection of `:key-released-fns` in the current scene."
[{:keys [input-enabled? scenes current-scene] :as state} e]
(if input-enabled?
(let [default-handled-state (default-key-released state e)
scene-handlers (get-in scenes [current-scene :key-released-fns])]
(reduce (fn [acc-state f]
(f acc-state e))
default-handled-state
scene-handlers))
state))The "set of held keys + reduce" idea worked like a charm! Thank you very much!
As we are in the voting phase, I cannot upload the new version, but if you would like to try it, you can do it on this link.
UPDATE: Thanks to the idea from @fwsuperhero, I was able to overcome the limitation of Quil.
As we are in the voting phase, I cannot upload the new version, but if you would like to try it, you can do it on this link.