hi, keyboards are evil: http://www.sjbaker.org/wiki/index.php?title=Keyboards_Are_Evil
you can try changing around they keys... some combinations are better than others. cheers, On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:14 AM, B W <stabbingfin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Howdy, folks. > > The following small program demonstrates a problem with key presses. > > http://trollsouttaluckland.googlecode.com/files/test.py > > The program accepts cursor keys and space key to simulate moving and firing, > respectively. It accumulates keydown and keyup events, translating > combinations into diagonal movement. If you press up+left, for example, the > box moves diagonally upward and left. This works as intended. > > Theoretically you can also fire the ray while moving. However, while moving > diagonally this only sometimes works. If for example I press space while > holding down up+left, the space key event is sometimes lost or blocked. I > can't tell which. But the result is that sometimes while moving diagonally > the ray "fires" and sometimes it does not. > > This occurs on Windows XP, Python 2.5.4, Pygame 1.9.1release-svn2575. I've > also seen it in Pygame 1.8.1. > > Does anyone have some insight on this odd behavior? Thanks in advance. :) > > Gumm >
