I have considered this issue. I decided that these kinds of kids should be introduced to Universe programs as opposed to World programs. That's way cooler than silly one-keyboard games.
-- Matthias On Jul 22, 2010, at 9:29 AM, Jay McCarthy wrote: > As far as I know, at the lowest level there is no "multiple key press" > event even in the OS. > > If they want to do that, they should change their world to record the > "current key press state": > > (define-struct the-world (keys . everything-else)) > > and at the start of `on-tick' look at the collective impact of all the > keys, resetting it to 'empty' when the new world is returned. > > That's more like how actually game engines work anyways. > > Jay > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Shriram Krishnamurthi <s...@cs.brown.edu> > wrote: >> I just spoke with a room of high-school students studying Universe >> programming in a summer course at Brown. >> >> One major complaint was that they couldn't do multi-key-presses. For >> instance, they want to use WASD navigation combined with a right-side >> key for firing, and want to be able to fire and navigate at the "same >> time". >> >> They've been using Shift, but the general consensus amongst the kids >> was this was Not Cool. Basically, they felt like they were being >> cheated out of building a "real game". >> >> I don't know what it would take to support this. >> >> Shriram >> _________________________________________________ >> For list-related administrative tasks: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev >> > > > > -- > Jay McCarthy <j...@cs.byu.edu> > Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University > http://teammccarthy.org/jay > > "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
