How can I have the same button for multiple events?

Hey CLickers,

In my current project I have such a button mess. Lol! Its a clean the kitchen game. The player currently talks to the kitchen clerk and discovers there's a big mess in the kitchen. The player has to walk over to the cabinet, which is filled with items, and press "C" to open up the menu. Why "C," I don't know. XD Then, the player uses the up and down arrow keys to highlight which item they want. When the player wants to choose the item, the player presses "Enter." Next the player must walk up to the correct mess with the correct cleaning item and press "Shift." This brings up a choice box in which the player chooses to use the item or not. The player must hit "Enter" to choose the item. I just feel that this is so many buttons. How could I consolidate all these events into one button? Let's say "Spacebar." Thanks Clickers!

Here's the MFA but be warned. This was created by a newbie. You might get lost. You might get confused. You might not return to your former self. XD

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0v...ew?usp=sharing

WOW that's completely insane XDXDXD
You're gonna having freakin' fun at your job! That's great :)

Quick thought,
you could "shrink" your button action adding more conditions:

"spacebar" pressed + guy overlapping cabinet + menu closed (i.e. flag 0 menu=off): open item menu
"spacebar" pressed + menu open (i.e. flag 0 menu=on): select current item
"spacebar" pressed + guy overlapping mess (or "mess sensor") + "use" choice closed: open use choice box
"spacebar" pressed + "use" choice open: attempt to clean mess

Fantastic Schrodinger!

I appreciate the help. That seems pretty easy. I'm in the stage of cleaning up all the code on the mini games. I'll post another one soon!

Hey Hey Snail,

Thanks for responding. I can't wait to get home and input this clean code. Personally, I was getting nervous when I got to the 100 event line and thought, "There has to be an easier way." Loops! Loops are interesting. To a beginner like me, I don't know when to use them. The only thing I know about them is that I could use loops for moving my character pixel by pixel and also to create many fireworks instantly. Lol. I guess the best way to learn when to use loops is trial and error.

Snail and Schrodinger,

Just an update. I consolidated all the buttons to "spacebar!" :). Thank y'all for all the help! Its so much better and I also studied up on fastloops! My wife is my beta tester, she's not a gamer, and she approves! Lol. Thanks.

Wife beta tester. Awesome :D

Does it tax the system to run a loop 0 times?

Ah I see. So it still needs to evaluate the condition, but it won't run the loop. In that:

Always:
-> Start Loop NObjects times

should be the same as

If NObjects > 0
-> Start Loop NObjects times

if there are no instances of the object. Is there another way?

I don't get what you're saying with your side note.