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elsamwell YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 13	is there any way to disable a key press ? Apr 20th, 2010, 8:31am   im building a game where you shoot asteroids, but i have a problem, when the ship gets hit by an asteroid you can still shoot even though its destroyed so i was wondering if there was anyway to disable the spacebar while the space ship is destroyed ? Many thanks

blindfish God Member Offline Posts: 793	Re: is there any way to disable a key press ? Reply #1 - Apr 20th, 2010, 8:39am   Set up a boolean variable. Set this to false when the ship is destroyed. Test that the boolean is true when the fire key is pressed.
	Where is the what if the what is in why?

elsamwell YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 13	Re: is there any way to disable a key press ? Reply #2 - Apr 20th, 2010, 8:44am   i currently have a boolean and it half works as it stops the missle going across the screen but when the key is pressed you can see the missle come out the end of the ship and then disapear, also it makes a shooting sound.

PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: is there any way to disable a key press ? Reply #3 - Apr 20th, 2010, 9:15am   You don't disable space bar, you just ignore this event when your program is in a given state.