"Upon clicking"

[KevinM]

A potentially newbie question about the "Upon pressing <key>" condition:

My understanding of this is that when a key is pressed and held down, this condition only fires once, and that the "Repeat while key is pressed" is for repeating actions while the key is pressed (duh <img src="/center/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> ).

The problem I'm having is that I have several events with these conditions that I'd like to have considered only once per press. Currently I have an display which shows which number is pressed, and events that look like this:

If LED5 is not visible
And LED4 is visible
And LED3 is visible
And LED2 is visible
And LED1 is visible
Upon pressing "1", Display LED5 and change its graphic to the "1" graphic.

If LED4 is not visible
And LED3 is visible
And LED2 is visible
And LED1 is visible
Upon pressing "1", Display LED4 and change its graphic to the "1" graphic.

If LED3 is not visible... etc.

I have a similar set of events for mouse clicks on a keypad and these work, no repeats. But if you use the numbers of the keyboard, then touching the "1" key, for instance, gives you a stream of five "1"s in a couple of microseconds. <img src="/center/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Am I missing something? Do I need to put in some sort of "Stop processing events after this one succeeds" (if such an event exists)?

Thanks,
KevinM

[Joshtek]

Works fine for me. Possible solutions:
1. Try putting the "upon press" condition on the top
2. Add "only one action when event loops"
3. Look elsewhere in your code
4. Post a .mfa file which demonstrates the problem

[Canto]

I believe that if you have more than one "Upon pressing 1" condition, it does the action once for each condition.

To get around this, you could have:
Upon pressing 1 - set flag on

then compare to whether the flag is on in each of your conditions instead of the keypress, and if true set the flag to false.