Problem with pad.release function

[Netaro]

Hello (or Bonjour, as you wish )
Well, i'm having some problems with pad system of OSL, with osl_pad.released one to be precise (althought i think it's all because of my poor programming skills...).

I'm trying to make a moving arrow that will move on itself and will stop moving after releasing the cross.

The function looks like this:

void BouncyImage::moveBump(){
if(osl_pad.released.cross){
    if(isBumping == false){
        isBumping =true;
        }
    else{
        isBumping = false;
        } 
    }

//the (quite long) rest is about moving and all...
}

http://rapidshare.com/files/54517913/main.cpp.html
there is the whole main.cpp source.
So, althought i think one of possibilities of this error is because the rest of function is quite long... Yet, it's not possible to make some more checks in the function.
So, is there any way to get rid if this problem?

And quite an offtopic question that i'd like to know the anwser: how does the library know if the button has been held, pushed or just released?

I'm still new to programming, so please forgive me those little mistakes

[Yodajr]

But what is your problem ?
Sorry I don't understand...

If you want : "make a moving arrow that will move on itself and will stop moving after releasing the cross", use osl_pad.held :

Code PHP:

if (osl_pad.held.cross)  isBumping = true;
else isBumping = false; 


[Netaro]

Oh god, i forgot to say what the problem is! Well, the thing is, that pressing X works only sometimes, usually nothing happens

[Netaro]

Well, there is still a big problem with pad.released and pad.pressed. I'm actually "trying" to make a galaga-like game. And so, i made a function that makes ship shoot a bullet when X button is...
Well, it only works when X is checked with osl_pad.held.cross.
When i'm trying to check if the button is pressed or released, it looks like it doesn't work! The ship shoots the bullet only if X is held. So, what is the problem and how to solve it?

[Brunni]

The problem is probably in your code because if the X key didn't work properly, a lot of other people (including me) would have noticed it
What does it look like?

[Yodajr]

Envoyé par Netaro

So, what is the problem and how to solve it?

I think that the problem is in your code, not with oslib

[Netaro]

http://rapidshare.com/files/60694391/Ast.rar.html
Well, there's the source, and tehgame itself... Crappy, but somewhat works... 'cept that problem

And the code looks like that:

In main.c the engine is initialized, and the SetKeyAutorepeat looks like:

    oslSetKeyAutorepeatInit(40);
    oslSetKeyAutorepeatInterval(10);

And then, the gameScreen class is initialized, which creates the ships 'n stuff...

Them in the main loop, the gameScreen.createScreen(); is called.
Within this function, lies:

void gameScreen::createScreen(){
    itsShip.checkMovement();
    itsEnemyArray.moveArray();
    itsShip.moveBullet(-1);
}

itsShip.checkMovement() calls oslReadKey(); then checks if the left or right is held, and that part works ok. Then, the itsEnemyArray.moveArray(); moves the array of enemies (mr. obvious to the rescue ). Then, within itsShip.moveBullet(-1); lies the problematic part.

void ship::moveBullet(int Vector){
    oslReadKeys();
    bool breaker = false;
if(osl_pad.released.cross){
        for(int iCounter = 0; iCounter < 3;iCounter++){
            if(itsBullet[iCounter].retMovement() == false){
                itsBullet[iCounter].createBullet("bullet.png",itsX + 3,itsY);
                breaker = true;
                }
            if(breaker == true)
            break;
               
            }
  }
    for(int i = 0; i < 3; i++){
    itsBullet[i].move(Vector);
    }
}

that function checks if the button has been released, and then, checks if there any free bullet slots (i designed the ship to be able to shoot max. 3 bullets). If there are any, then bullet is shot. It works only if i change the "released" to "held", which is very, very undesireable .
And that's all...

To be frank, same problem appeared in the previous, much simpler project

[Yodajr]

It's hard to understand this damn C++ syntax

But try to delete the 2nd "oslReadKeys();" at l.126...
oslReadKeys must be called only once.
I didn't tested it, but try a look.

And this will do not work :

itsBullet[iCounter].createBullet("rocket.png",itsX + 3,itsY);

because no file called "rocket.png" in your game files

[Netaro]

Deleting the second call of function helped a lot Thank you, Yodajr!

And also, a question -> was that syntax illegilible because you are more fluent with c or was my messy style of writing the reason?

[Yodajr]

You're welcome
And don't worry, it's because I learned only C