Key press order, direction problem...

[Konidias]

Is there any way to get proper directions with movement while holding two keys? For example, if you have the following events in this order:

keypressing left
keypressing right
keypressing down
keypressing up

and then you move around... if you press and hold up or down and the press left or right, you get a nice strafing. (what I want) because the up and down keypressing is being checked after the left and right.

but if you try to move left or right and then press up or down, you turn to face up or down.

I know this is due to the order of the conditions in MMF. If you put up and down checks over top of the left and right, the situation is reversed.

Is there any way to have it either always face in the direction of the last key pressed, or always face in the direction of the first key pressed?

Setting flags on and off really doesn't help, considering they still go in some sort of order.

[Konidias]

No solution for this then?

[DavidN]

You would need a separate object to store the first key pressed in a particular... cluster of keys (is the term coming to mind just now).

If none of the keys are pressed (Repeat while "Up" is not pressed + Repeat while "Right" is not pressed... etc) then set a value/direction to some sort of value you can check for. (Call it an alterable value - set it to -1 when none of the keys are being pressed).

Then, as soon as any of the keys that you want to check for are pressed (Repeat while (key) pressed + Object's value is -1), set that object's value to indicate that that particular key was pressed first. Even with any other keys pressed, that object's value will remain at the value for the first key until all the detected keys are released again.

Use that stored value to decide which way the character should face.