My keyboard has always done that too. Most keyboards have problems like
that.
A good workaround is to use CTRL instead of space. CTRL mixes better
with arrow keys on almost all computers.
I have also had good luck with Z and X on many keyboards, in case you
need more keys.
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James Paige
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 09:43:06PM -0400, Kris Schnee wrote:
> While playing with my little game framework, I found I could jump in
> each of eight compass directions, except northwest. Investigating the
> problem, I found that when my character was moving northwest (angle 315,
> where 0 is north and 90 is east), the "Jump" function wasn't getting
> called. So I told the main input loop to print a message whenever the
> Space (jump) key was hit.
>
> According to Pygame, it seems, hitting the Space key while the Up and
> Left arrows are held down doesn't generate a KEYDOWN event! Yet there
> seems to be no problem with hitting another key, or at least K or
> LSHIFT, with this arrow combination, or with any other arrow combination.
>
> Below is a test script that replicates the error. Am I overlooking
> something obvious here, or is there a glitch in pygame.event?
>
> Kris
>
> <code>
>
> import pygame
> from pygame.locals import *
> pygame.init()
> screen = pygame.display.set_mode((640,480))
>
> """
> Run a standard Pygame event loop with a blank screen. ESC to exit.
> The loop prints what "angle" you're holding down with the arrow keys,
> whenever you hit Space, LSHIFT, or K.
> The error is that hitting Space while holding Left and Up doesn't seem
> to generate a KEYDOWN event!
> """
>
> done = False
> while not done:
>
> report_angle = False
>
> ## Handle events.
> keys_pressed = pygame.key.get_pressed() ## Keys that're down.
>
> for event in pygame.event.get():
> if event.type == QUIT:
> done = True
> elif event.type == KEYDOWN:
> print "A key was hit: "+str(event.key)
> if event.key == K_ESCAPE:
> done = True
>
> ## This doesn't seem to work!
> elif event.key == K_SPACE:
> print "Pressed Space."
> report_angle = True
>
> ## This one works.
> elif event.key == K_LSHIFT:
> print "Pressed LeftShift."
> report_angle = True
>
> ## This one works fine.
> elif event.key == K_k:
> print "Pressed K."
> report_angle = True
>
> if report_angle:
> move_x, move_y = 0, 0
> if keys_pressed[ K_UP ]:
> move_y = 1
> elif keys_pressed[ K_DOWN ]:
> move_y = -1
> if keys_pressed[ K_LEFT ]:
> move_x = -1
> elif keys_pressed[ K_RIGHT ]:
> move_x = 1
> angle =
> {(0,0):None,(0,-1):180,(0,1):0,(-1,0):270,(1,0):90,(-1,1):315,(1,1):45,(-1,-1):225,(1,-1):135}[(move_x,move_y)]
> print "Angle: "+str(angle)
>
> pygame.display.update()
>
> pygame.display.quit()
>
>
> </code>
>
