Holding one button and pressing another

[aeroshock]

Im trying to make a game that works with a guitar controller, (Using the joystick 2 extension btw) kind of guitar hero like. I want a note to only play if I hold down the note button and then strum. I've got it set up so it pretty much works but its a little glitchy...

Basically I have 2 values, NOTE and STRUM, both default at 0. if you hold the note button it will set the "note" value to 1. If you strum it will set the "strum" value to 1. To play the note, NOTE must be 1 and STRUM must be 0.

It seems to work mostly but it looks like I made a paradox or something. Because the act of hitting the strum bar would change STRUM to 1, not 0 like required by my action. So please help me before I destroy the universe with my coding.

[camelman]

Well your events are clearly contradicting themselves. You say if you strum, it sets strum value to one. But then you say "the act of hitting the strum bar would change STRUM to 1, not 0 like required by my action." Seems what your writing in the events isn't what your trying to get. I would try this:

X(negate!)Repeat while Note button is being pressed-sub 1 from note

and then

Repeat while Note button is being pressed - add 1 to note. (make sure to set counter max to 1, or just use Set counter instead of add)

Make sure to add those same events to the "strum" counter as well. That should work, unless I am misinterpreting what you are trying to do.

For the event that actually plays a sample, I would set it to "one action when event loops" just so that note does'nt ring out.

[aeroshock]

Actually, that is exactly how I have it. Sorry, I didnt explain it very well. It basically works, but is pretty easy to break - if I hold down strum and then press a button right on the note it will play, and after that if I keep the buttons down it will play every note that comes.

So I have

*X Repeat while Note button is being pressed - set note to 0

*Repeat while Note button is being pressed - set note to 1

*X point of view (strum) button is backward - set strum to 0

*strum is 0
*note is 1
*point of view is backward
*obj 1 is overlapping obj 2 - set strum to 1, play note

[aeroshock]

Still pretty stuck on this, any help would be awesome...