Help with some logical troubles

[John_Luara]

Hello, I'm new on this forum. If this post isn't in the right place, so sorry!

I'm having trouble with a event that allows the "Player" to choose 02 different chars with the same button "ENTER".
In my app I have a cursor that swipe between the avaliable chars on the screen, and if the player press ENTER the NAME of the char is saved in a
global string (for now, after this will be in a .ini), and then the player is allowed to choose the second char that will have the NAME saved in another global string.

I know that is a little confused (and sorry, i'm brazillian and new in MMF)

The code is like this:

When the cursor is on CHAR AAA

Upon pressing "ENTER"
+ Player = 0
Set CHAR01 = "AAA"
Set Player = 1


Note:
Player is a Global Value
CHAR01 is a Global String
CHAR02 is a Global String

Now, the cursor is on CHAR BBB

Upon pressing "ENTER"
+ Player = 1
Set CHAR02 = "BBB"
Set Player = 2


Note: I set Player to 2 to prevent the player enter again the this condition


But the problem is when I press enter the first time the global string CHAR01 e CHAR02 receive the same string of the first char selected.
like CHAR01 and CHAR02 = "AAA"
I wanna know how I can do this the right way

I only want a way that I allow the player to select char AAA with enter, and after select char BBB with the same enter, and I can work with these names in a global string or ini.

Can anyone help me...
Thanks!

[schrodinger]

If there are only these two choices (1 & 2)
to be strictly performed in this sequence and just once,
you could try inverting the event order:


Upon pressing "ENTER"
+ Player = 1
Set CHAR02 = "BBB"
Set Player = 2

Upon pressing "ENTER"
+ Player = 0
Set CHAR01 = "AAA"
Set Player = 1


May sound silly, but fact is that events are checked and performed top to bottom,
so in previous setting, if you set "Player" to 1 in one event,
and check if player=1 in the following event
both actions will be performed in the same frame (at the same time)
while if you invert order
the "enter" press will trigger only the second condition inside a single frame cycle,
and the first in following cycles
(at least, if I got correctly what you're doing)

If this doesn't work, a sample .mfa may help us pinpoint the issue more successfully

[rubes]

I have experienced this type of behavior, because when you hit enter, even though you tap it once, the computer is rapidly checking that and it will count it as being pressed many times. To get around this, i usually use a timer event to help me out.

For example,

Upon pressing "ENTER"
+ Player = 0
Set CHAR01 = "AAA"
Set Player = 1
Set ENTER_TIMER =0

Add 1 to ENTER_TIMER

Upon pressing "ENTER"
+ Player = 1
+ ENTER_TIMER>30

Set CHAR02 = "BBB"
Set Player = 2

[John_Luara]

Thanks both solutions Schrodinger and Rubes ... They work fine!