which event for key pressed and hold

[blackMasoon]

Hello. I want to implement sound of walking in my event method. For that i need to receive an event of pressed and hold key to play irrklang sound? which event shall I choose instead of irr::KEY_XX (XX means type of key).

I need that because if i try to do this:

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if(pManager->getKey(irr::KEY_UP) || pManager->getKey(irr::KEY_DOWN) || pManager->getKey(irr::KEY_LEFT) || pManager->getKey(irr::KEY_DOWN))
		getMySoundEngine()->play2D("media/sounds/grasswalk.wav",false);

it starts to ply sound many times.

[MPKaboose]

my suggestion would be that when the key is pressed apply the playing of the sound once then when the key is not held down stop it (once) sorry if I exprime myself bad

[nathanf534]

you need to use some boolean variable to remember if the key is up/down

this might be what you want

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bool keyDown=false;
bool playingSound=false;
if(pManager->getKey(irr::KEY_UP) || pManager->getKey(irr::KEY_DOWN) || pManager->getKey(irr::KEY_LEFT) || pManager->getKey(irr::KEY_DOWN)) 
      keyDown=true;
if(keyDown&&!playingSound){
    getMySoundEngine()->play2D("media/sounds/grasswalk.wav",false);
    playingSound=true;
}

Im not entirely sure how your sound engine works... so you will need to add something that either stops the sound, or makes it repeat when its over...

[greenya]

blackMasoon,

I think you have to do:

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- if sound key pressed:
    - if sound not playing
        - start play sound
        - else do nothing

p.s.: the sound should be short (like 1.0-1.5 seconds).

[blackMasoon]

Thanks guys but i found a soundsource bool method called isCurrentlyPlaying() which does all the work