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Lord_Sonic YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 2 Athens, Greece	ESC key code is used only for exitting a program! Jun 10th, 2010, 1:31pm   how can i use ESC key not to exit a program but to lets say change state of a game to paused or something else???

MusumeMiharu YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 1

Re: ESC key code is used only for exitting a program! Reply #1 - Jun 10th, 2010, 3:00pm   Lord_Sonic wrote on Jun 10th, 2010, 1:31pm: how can i use ESC key not to exit a program but to lets say change state of a game to paused or something else? I'm new to this, so don't blame me if I'm wrong, but I think this should work: if (keyPressed) {      if (key == 27) { //The ASCII code for esc is 27, so therefore: 27      //insert your function here      } }

ben_hem Senior Member Offline Posts: 399 CA, US	Re: ESC key code is used only for exitting a program! Reply #2 - Jun 10th, 2010, 3:03pm   almost!  the key part is this: if (key == ESC) key=0; // trap ESC so it doesn't quit otherwise the ESC/27 code will pass on.

Lord_Sonic YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 2 Athens, Greece	Re: ESC key code is used only for exitting a program! Reply #3 - Jun 10th, 2010, 3:44pm   thank you ben hemme!! thank you both! THE GAME IS COMPLETE! i am presenting it next thursday here in greece!