Hi I am only 13 and have been doing vb.net for only a few months but so I dont know anything amazingly complex. I have a question about keys. I am working on a game where when you press the right key your character moves right, left and your character moves left etc...

I do know how to make other classes and other forms and to call to them so far all I got was

if system.windows.forms.keys.right() then

end if

but I dont know how to make it so an event is fired if its pressed.
Please anwser


Nick Cammarata

Hi Nick.

The events that are fired already (and so is what you should use) are keydown and keypress. Within whichever of those 2 best suits your needs, process for which key is involved, and take the action you have in mind if it is the key you're after.

Within these events, you can prevent continuation of the standard handling of the key. In other words, if it is your key, handle it and prevent further normal processing, else ignore it, and allow normal processing.

Does that help?

Brian

[edited part follows]
By the way, the way to fire an event—if you in fact must—is with RaiseEvent.

Thank you so much for replying, well I found the anwser I was looking for and it was

if e.keycode = system.windows.forms.keys.a then
messagebox.show("It Worked")
end if

Nick Cammarata