Condition for shift and key press?

[soopytwist]

I need to implement debugging controls while making my game. I need to be able to press a key to centre on a coordinate in my 6400x4800 frame and then teleport my player to that area.
I've got 100 rooms in my frame so I can only reasonably set conditions for the first 40 rooms. So pressing key 1 centres on 320x224 and pressing key ? centres on 6080x1664.

But I need more keys to be able to jump to any of the 100 rooms. I also need to be able to set player position with a key press related to that room. So having pressed ? to centre on 6080x1664 I also need to press SHIFT and ?, for example, to teleport my player.

Setting key presses in MMF2 only seems to allow one single key press. Like if I wanted / I need shift and ? but MMF2 only takes the shift key as pressed.

Is this not possible?

[soopytwist]

It doesn't look possible to me. So in the absence of that option how would I do this:

Type a word on the keyboard and a box appears, into which you type a number, 55 say, and the screen centres at 2880x2640 and teleports the player to this area too. How would I do this?
A cheat mode effectively that allows the player to jump to any of the 100 rooms in my game; but also a useful debugging tool!

[soopytwist]

Never mind I found a way. Using a Popup Menu. I've added each room number to a list with sub menu for each possible exit in each room. I've added conditions that make the popup menu appear when the mouse is double-clicked, then picking room 19 - red door exit - for example - centres the screen at 5440 x 720 and changes the player position. It works a treat and very useful for play testing and debugging.

If I left it in as a cheat mode I'd probably need some sort of hidden password that locks the double-click of the mouse. I found a tutorial for that so I'll give that a go.

Once I've got it working I'll post here what I did for others. Might be a while though because I've got lots of things going on with my project.

[ZycroNeXuS]

If I'm understanding this correctly, this is a simple solution.

You can set up multiple conditions for an event, so if you set up one key as a condition, then right click on that condition, in the context menu is an option called Insert. click that, and you can set up another key. This will add another condition to the event, which will activate the event when both the shift and number key is pressed, and ONLY when they are both pressed.

Hope this helps!
Ethan

[soopytwist]

That was the first thing I tried Zycronite - it doesn't work, it ignores whatever keys you insert in the same condition. Well, it doesn't work in MMF2.

[ZycroNeXuS]

That's quite odd, that normally works for me. I'm afraid I don't know a bunch about the more technical aspects of MMF2, so I can't really help beyond that. It seems you've found an alternative solution, however, so good luck on your project. The screenshots I've seen posted around the last few topics look pretty good!

[ratty]

You want to implement a key press while another key is held? If so:

-repeat while shift key is pressed
+user presses ? Key

Use that event

[soopytwist]

You want to implement a key press while another key is held? If so:

-repeat while shift key is pressed
+user presses ? Key

Use that event

Now why didn't I think of that?! Thanks ratty.

Why can't I quote other peoples posts? I can only quote my own - which is weird. Had to put above quote in my own tags.

[ZycroNeXuS]

You want to implement a key press while another key is held? If so:

-repeat while shift key is pressed
+user presses ? Key

Use that event

That was so obvious.

I'm kicking myself now.
Oh well, the solution was found. Good luck on your project, soopytwist.