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Posted: **Tue Sep 08, 2015 12:37 am**

I think it would be great if iskeydown and waitkeydown would accept "any" as argument for any key and return the value of the pressed key accordingly. Something like that:

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result$=iskeydown(ANY)
print (result$)

Posted: **Wed Sep 09, 2015 9:23 am**

zylesea wrote:I think it would be great if iskeydown and waitkeydown would accept "any" as argument for any key and return the value of the pressed key accordingly.

How would multiple simultaneously pressed down keys get handled? One return value is not enough, you would need a state table.

Posted: **Sun Sep 13, 2015 12:34 am**

jalih wrote:
zylesea wrote:I think it would be great if iskeydown and waitkeydown would accept "any" as argument for any key and return the value of the pressed key accordingly.
How would multiple simultaneously pressed down keys get handled? One return value is not enough, you would need a state table.

I thought to keep it rather simple. Just wait for the very first key hit and report the value of that particular key. IMHO that would ease up things quite much as it would simplify things like

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Repeat 
    Wait(2) 
   If IsKeyDown("space")=True Then    Break
   If IsKeyDown("m")=True Then my_rquit=True
   Until my_rquit=True
   If  my_rquit=True
        p_mybuttons()
    Else
       p_6Stim()
    EndIf

to something like that:

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mykey$=waitkeydown(ANY)
switch mykey$
 case space: p_6Stim()
 case m: p_mybottons()
default: p_mydefaultroutine()
endswitch

In my wildest fantasies the waitkeydown or wait#? function would accept a timeout option, too. Would enable something like
waitkeydown (ANY, 5000)
-> wait for any key to be pressed before 5s time period has passed. If funtion times out give a False return value. But that would be a cherry on top which is not that important.

Posted: **Sat Sep 26, 2015 2:48 pm**

The ANY option could be added because "Press any key to continue" is certainly a situation that is common in many programs. The timeout option sounds too specific, though. I don't think there are many people who would need this so you should probably implement that on your own.

Posted: **Sun Sep 27, 2015 1:56 am**

Sounds good.
And as for the timeout option, as said that would be only the cherry on top, nothing of too high importance.

Posted: **Tue Feb 23, 2016 4:50 pm**

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- New: WaitKeyDown() and IsKeyDown() accept the magic word "ANY" now to check if any key is down or wait
  for any key

Posted: **Wed Mar 02, 2016 7:39 pm**

airsoftsoftwair wrote:

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- New: WaitKeyDown() and IsKeyDown() accept the magic word "ANY" now to check if any key is down or wait
  for any key

Great!

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