[BASS and Verb Coin] Holding down a key constantly switches the menu on and off

[Max833]

Issue with: AGS 3.6.1 and AGS 4

Basically this topic:
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/beginners-technical-questions/release-pressed-key-holding-down-key/

I have menu screen that comes up when I press "ESC" key. Everything works, unless player holds down the ESC key. Then the menu screen constantly switches on and off, and I dont want that. The menu screen should appear when the player releases the ESC key. The player needs to press it again to close it. Holding down the key shouldn't have any effect, pressing it should be like when pressing a gui button, the action happens when the button is released.

Two templates are affected: Verb Coin and BASS

Generate the template, start the game, hold ESC and you see this in the video. The other menus don't have this issue (Load menu etc.).

2024-08-19_23-23-57.mp4

[ericoporto]

I think this is actually OS dependent, what happens is if you hold a key, the OS will generate key presses and the GUI is coded to show on key press. AGS doesn't have a on_key_release event, but in theory the workaround is to work with the key release event (which the OS doesn't duplicate).

In actual game you can just use repeatedly_execute_always and process the key input as you please - the templates though keep the code simple so they will probably have to rely on key press event.