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  • 2026-01-15 at 2:55 pm #85980
    c4cc
    Customer

    I need to implement user functions/player controls regarding keys being held down and released, especially within/after a certain time. How do I detect how long key is being held/pressed down?

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    2026-01-15 at 11:04 pm #85983
    xeon
    Customer

    easiest way seems through JS does it need to be puzzle based?

    Xeon
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    2026-01-15 at 11:41 pm #85984
    xeon
    Customer

    here is a puzzle based solution…for a specific key:
    https://v3d.net/1eh2

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    2026-01-16 at 8:13 am #85985
    c4cc
    Customer

    Tried it for animations, unfortunately it didn’t work, help? Need animation played once when key is pressed and released, and looping animation played when key is pressed/held down after certain time

    Procedures

    KeyDown/up

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    2026-01-16 at 4:46 pm #85990
    xeon
    Customer

    The initial question was a key down timer….the solution provided does that…but what you are asking now is a different question that has many different solutions

    Here are two examples:
    Press the 7 key and it will jump
    Hold the 7 key and it will rotate…. no time gap between the two events

    Press 8 and it will jump
    Press 8 and hold the 8 key for 3 seconds and it will jump then rotate indefinitely until the 8 key is released.

    project file located here: https://v3d.net/1eh2
    demo here: https://v3d.net/1ehg

    Hope this helps.

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    2026-01-16 at 7:41 pm #85999
    c4cc
    Customer

    So far this seems to work, thanks

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    2026-01-20 at 5:37 pm #86014
    c4cc
    Customer


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    I’m trying to recreate above javascript into puzzles to detect time when a key is held down, compared to time a key is released, so I can play different animations, depending on a key being instantly pressed, vs a key being held down for some time.

    While I can cancel the immediate key press animation, to play a key held down animation, the key held down animation when key is released STILL plays the immediate key press ending animation. I don’t want the key held down animation to play the immediate key
    press ending animation.

    How do I get the key held down animation to play its own ending animation when the key held down is released? Where did I go wrong with these puzzles

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    2026-01-20 at 11:31 pm #86016
    xeon
    Customer

    Javascript would make this so much cleaner I think but here is a puzzle solution:

    https://cdn.soft8soft.com/AROAJSY2GOEHMOFUVPIOE:f2f27a4091/X3L_key_down_timer/X3L_key_down_timer.html

    Hold the 8 key down briefly. ( less than .5 seconds ) it just plays animation one. Hold the 8 key down for more than .5 seconds it will play animation one…then loop animation 2…then when you let go of the 8 key…it will play animation 3. Animation three only plays after the 8 key is held down.

    Project file here: http://localhost:8668/manage/?app=X3L_key_down_timer#:~:text=X3L_key_down_timer.zip

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    2026-01-21 at 2:18 am #86017
    c4cc
    Customer

    Sorry, I can’t download the file, could you reupload it please? Thanks

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    2026-01-22 at 5:58 pm #86025
    c4cc
    Customer

    Thanks for your demo, I modified it for my needs, and it works as intended. The modified puzzles

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    2026-01-22 at 6:39 pm #86026
    xeon
    Customer

    Glad you were able to make it work.
    You may want to consider minimizing the amount of stuff that is run through the “Everyframe” puzzles. You could consolidate and have only one “Everyframe” puzzle and pull the onkeydown event listeners out of the “Everyframe” puzzle since they are event based and don’t need to be triggered or retriggered every frame. You may find some performance gains.

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    2026-01-23 at 3:18 am #86027
    c4cc
    Customer

    Thanks for your suggestions, I’ll look into it

    Just wondering, weren’t your original onkeydown event listener puzzless inside the everyframe puzzles?

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    2026-01-23 at 6:30 am #86029
    c4cc
    Customer

    Do you mean consolidating/minimizing puzzles like this:

    But in practice, I need different puzzle variants for different user inputs, so I separated them into different sets:

    verge3d-nokeyboardinputhere

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    2026-01-23 at 4:22 pm #86033
    xeon
    Customer

    The first image is probably your most efficient means.
    You only want one key down event listener…within it you can put the If statements that control the various key conditions. Splitting them up may seem organizationally efficient but from a program perspective can lead to problems.

    All of the example puzzles I provided are in the current project. In the main tab is the first iteration, the last tab is the second itteration and the middle tab is the most recent.

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    2026-01-23 at 5:04 pm #86034
    c4cc
    Customer
    xeon wrote:

    The first image is probably your most efficient means.
    You only want one key down event listener…within it you can put the If statements that control the various key conditions. Splitting them up may seem organizationally efficient but from a program perspective can lead to problems.

    Agreed, I only split those puzzles up as reference for future programming, I won’t use both sets together

    Also, any way for me to further simplify/optimize these puzzles?

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