Keyboard events- press & depress

[Rushhour]

Hi there, I know the only way to detect keys other than escape, arrow keys (and spacebar) is by adding hotkeys to abilities of units. But this wouldn't be enough, since I would then need a way to detect when the key isn't pressed anymore.
I need the arrow keys for movement, so can anyone think of something?

And yes I have a fixed camera field so the spacebar wouldn't work too since you can only register camera change that comes with spacebar^^

 

[Lehona]

No way without RtC.

 

[HeX.16]

• Melee Initialization
  • Events
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) Presses the Left Arrow key
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) Presses the Right Arrow key
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) Presses the Down Arrow key
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) Presses the Up Arrow key
  • Conditions
  • Actions

Its all under events -> player -> keyboard event
I believe

 

[Wratox1]

• Melee Initialization
  • Events
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) Presses the Left Arrow key
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) Presses the Right Arrow key
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) Presses the Down Arrow key
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) Presses the Up Arrow key
  • Conditions
  • Actions

Its all under events -> player -> keyboard event
I believe

yes and there is one release event for each arrow key also

 

[HeX.16]

Yes Wratox is right there are (i forgot and didnt read the post xD)

 

[Wratox1]

yes, but from what i know there is no press/release event for spacebar

 

[HeX.16]

*Some1 who knows Jass corrects the above statement*
Lol i dont think its possible in GUI but im sure Jass has ways of doing it.

 

[Anachron]

I know the only way to detect keys other than escape, arrow keys (and spacebar) is by adding hotkeys to abilities of units. But this wouldn't be enough

Seriously guys, do you even read the question? He already knows that.
But sadly no, there is no way to detect keyboard events else.

 

[HeX.16]

Well part of our posts was about the releasing of keys...

 

[Anachron]

Yes, but he already knows how to manage arrow key presses and releasing, he just wants the normal keys to be registered.

 

[Rushhour]

Anachron is right, but I didn't make it 100% clear in my first post, so my fault too

I will try something out. Mainly what happens if player presses a key, lets say T, that is the hotkey for a dummy ability. Maybe this already fires "starts casting an abillity-event" . And then I will test what happens if I order that unit to cast the ability, maybe this results in some positive effect, I will see

 

[Anachron]

Good luck on that. You might post the solution if you find one.

 

[BlueMirage]

Wierd that there isn't an event that detects button presses when there is an action that enforces them.

 

[Anachron]

It's wc3. It doesn't have to make sense.