Prevent Flooding

[tophat]

I'm making a mario-like platform game, and when you press spacebar, it shoots fireballs. The only problem is, if you hold down spacebar, they just endlessly come out until you stop pressing it. Is there any way to control this?

[Hansol]

I'm making a mario-like platform game, and when you press spacebar, it shoots fireballs. The only problem is, if you hold down spacebar, they just endlessly come out until you stop pressing it. Is there any way to control this?

im kinda newb at flash so i cant give you the exact code cause i need references, but i know you can but a interval so it sets a time and when the times up it removes the bullet, during the time a bullet shouldnt not be able to be created. I can think it up just no sure the exact thing to type. : \

[bombsledder]

var keyhandler:Object= {}
keyhandler.onKeyDown=function(){
if(Key.isDown(Key.SPACE)){
// Firing code here
}
}
Key.addListener(keyhandler)


should do the trick

[SacrificialLamb]

i would use some thing like this. it's like interval but i don't like coding them

t=0
onEnterFrame = function() {
if(Key.isDown(Key.SPACE) && t == 0){
t=12 // @ 24fps this is every half second
// Firing code here
} else {
t--
}
}

[bombsledder]

this is how i would write it with intervals



var keyhandler:Object = {};
var canShoot:Boolean = true;
var interval:Number = null;
var time:Number = 1400;
keyhandler.onKeyDown = function() {
if (Key.isDown(Key.SPACE)) {
if (canShoot) {
trace("shoot here");
canShoot = false;
_root.interval = setInterval(function () {
canShoot = true;
clearInterval(_root.interval);
}, time);
}
}
};
Key.addListener(keyhandler);

[tophat]

thanks for the help but none of these codes came close to working. in fact, they made it worse :/

[bombsledder]

both codes should work fine, post your code

[NiñoScript]

why aren't they working?, they should... (at least SacrificialLamb's way, which is the only one i read)

try posting your code

[tophat]

sorry about that. should've put that from the start :)


on (keyPress "<Space>") {

ran = random(1000);
_root.ran = ran;

duplicateMovieClip(_root.pill, "pill"+ran, +ran);
_root["pill"+ran]._x=_root.mario._x;
_root["pill"+ran]._y=_root.mario._y-20; // 10
_root["pill"+pc]._alpha=random(100); // Just for different alphas

sound = new Sound(this);
sound.attachSound("fireball");
sound.start(0,0);

}
The only reason I used random(1000) was because using increasing increments clashed with another part of my AS. Random works just as fine.

Oh, and by the way, when I used the codes you supplied, I put them in onClipEvent(enterFrame) not on(keyPress "<Space>") ;)

[bombsledder]

var keyhandler:Object = {};
var canShoot:Boolean = true;
var interval:Number = null;
var time:Number = 1400;

function shoot(){
ran = random(1000);
_root.ran = ran;
var mc = _root.duplicateMovieClip(_root.pill, "pill"+ran, +ran);
mc._x=_root.mario._x;
mc._y=_root.mario._y-20; // 10
mc._alpha=random(100); // Just for different alphas

sound = new Sound(this);
sound.attachSound("fireball");
sound.start(0,0);

}
keyhandler.onKeyDown = function() {
if (Key.isDown(Key.SPACE)) {
if (canShoot) {
_root.shoot()
canShoot = false;
_root.interval = setInterval(function () {
canShoot = true;
clearInterval(_root.interval);
}, time);
}
}
};
Key.addListener(keyhandler);



shouldnt have any problems if your code you had before any others worked aswell