Key Press

I am making a game using Direct X 7 Direct Draw, and I am calling a sub that handles key press (P.S. I am not using Dx to do this it is an api). I put my game in a loop and call my key press detection sub from there. I was wondering if there was a good way to slow the detection down without being inaccurate. For instance, when in the driving game if I want to turn left and I press the left key the car might do a circle just by tapping the left key because it is so sensitive.


Thanks

create another loop in the code to slow it down

something like...

for i = 0 to 10000
doevents
next
detectKeyPress


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Thanks for the reply, i think i got it now.

You can slow it down by using X = 1 to 10000, but the proper way, I hope :), would be through this API call:

Private Declare Sub Sleep Lib "kernel32" (ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long)

Then, in your code where you would like to pause continuation, just write Sleep #####

change ##### to the ammount of milliseconds you want to pause it. For example, say you have a command button on a form and want to display MsgBoxes a few moments apart w/o the timer control, you could write this

Option Explicit
Private Declare Sub Sleep Lib "kernel32" (ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long)

Private Sub Command1_Click()
MsgBox "First message"
Sleep 5000 'wait for 5 seconds before continuing
MsgBox "Next Message"
End Sub

Hope this helps

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