Control Events question

[Innula Zenovka]

I'm a bit confused with control events.   What I've got, having studied the article in the LSL wiki, is 

 

 integer up_left = CONTROL_ROT_LEFT|CONTROL_FWD;


if((held & change) && (change & up_left)){
			llOwnerSay("up left");
		}

 I was expecting it to say "up left" only if I've pressed both the left and up arrow keys, but instead it's firing if I press either.

What I want it do to is say "left" or "up", as appropriate, if I press one, and then "up left" if I press both.   Where am I going wrong, please?

[Zena Juran]

you might try...

 

 integer up_left = CONTROL_ROT_LEFT|CONTROL_FWD;if((held & up_left) && (change & up_left)){			llOwnerSay("up left"); 

[Void Singer]

it might help you to know how controls report...

keydown = held:true, change:true
keyheld = held:true, change:false
keyup = held:false, change:true

each key is a single bit in the control event, the bits positions match across the held and change variables. using bitwise AND (&) compares if particular bits (keys) are set to true or false. using logical AND (&&) checks if ANY bits are set.

[Kaluura Boa]

A bit of binary maths...

integer up_left = CONTROL_ROT_LEFT|CONTROL_FWD;if ((held & change & up_left) == up_left){    llOwnerSay("up left");}

Or more verbosely:

if (((held & up_left) == up_left) && ((change & up_left) == up_left))

That will do the trick.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Thanks, everyone.  I finally, before I'd read all the replies,  got it working with 

 

  if((change) && (held == up_left)){      llOwnerSay("up left");   }

 

[Void Singer]

that's a good solution, but be aware that it will trigger only when just those two keys are held down, or when those keys are held down and third key is released.

Kalura's will only triger if those two keys are held down at the same time (and controls trigger fast so it must be in the same frame)

if you don't want them to be exclusive, and want to catch asynchronous presses
((change & up_left) && ((held & up_left) == up_left))
will be be more forgiving (at least one of the two changed, and both are now down)