Find out what key was pressed?

I'm working on a program where I have a character pick a random letter from a list and shout it out, I need to have an event that checks to see what key was pressed by the user to compare it. My problem is the only way I can seem to get what key was pressed from the 'any key' event is when I use the print function. It points to evenx->KeyChar, but I can't seem to set a variable to this (optimum) or even compare it with an if/else right in the event. Can anyone help?

Would this be a correct understanding of your question?

The character is playing a guessing game: if the user presses "A" through "D" the program checks whether the key pressed is, say, "C" and takes some action if so and some other action if not.

If that's correct, you could define a method (world-level, or whatever is appropriate) like this:

world.check(String response) {
if (response == "C")
// do something
else
// do something else
}

Having done that, create four separate events, one for each possible key press and each calling world.check, like this

when "A" is typed, do world.check("A")
when "B" is typed, do world.check("B")

and so on. Works like a charm.

Originally Posted by Silver Fox

Having done that, create four separate events, one for each possible key press and each calling world.check, like this

when "A" is typed, do world.check("A")
when "B" is typed, do world.check("B")

and so on. Works like a charm.

If that's the only way to check multiple keys / events ... then um.. that's really ugly

It would be much more elegant if you could do something like :

when any_key is typed, do world.check(system.key.pressed)


and then some kind of switch/case statement (is there such a thing in Alice ?).

Mike

[rich0e0rick]

sorry guys, but i think Silver fox has the solution to the problem.....
At least, thats the way i would do it.....