Help with controlling multiple Objects

[Tech N Gamer]

I need help, I am using the Keyboard Class from Lightweight Java Game Library and it won't change anything. It goes in a while loop but nothing happens, even when a key is pressed. Any help will be appreciated.

[fizzlesticks]

Need to see your code to help.

[prolemur]

Include the part of the code that isn't working and I'll give it a look

[Tech N Gamer]

private void keyChange() {
	        while(Keyboard.next()) {
	            System.out.println("in loop");
	            if(Keyboard.getEventKey() == Keyboard.KEY_Q && Keyboard.getEventKeyState()){
	                System.out.println("Q Key");
	                Shadow.changeDir(true);
	                break;
	            } else if(Keyboard.getEventKey() == Keyboard.KEY_W && Keyboard.getEventKeyState()){
	                System.out.println("W Key");
	                Shadow.changeDir(false);
	                break;
	            } else if(Keyboard.getEventKey() == Keyboard.KEY_X && Keyboard.getEventKeyState()){
	                System.out.println("up");
	                Speedy.changeDir(true);
	            } else if(Keyboard.getEventKey() == Keyboard.KEY_C && Keyboard.getEventKeyState()){
	                System.out.println("down");
	                Speedy.changeDir(false);
	            } else if(Keyboard.getEventKey() == Keyboard.KEY_T && Keyboard.getEventKeyState()){
	                System.out.println("down");
	                Inky.changeDir(true);
	            } else if(Keyboard.getEventKey() == Keyboard.KEY_Y && Keyboard.getEventKeyState()){
	                System.out.println("down");
	                Inky.changeDir(false);
	            } else if(Keyboard.getEventKey() == Keyboard.KEY_M && Keyboard.getEventKeyState()){
	                System.out.println("down");
	                Pokey.changeDir(true);
	            } else if(Keyboard.getEventKey() == Keyboard.KEY_COMMA && Keyboard.getEventKeyState()){
	                System.out.println("down");
	                Pokey.changeDir(false);
	            } else if(Keyboard.getEventKey() == Keyboard.KEY_RIGHT && Keyboard.getEventKeyState()){
	                System.out.println("right");
	                PacMan.changeDir(0);
	                break;
	            } else if(Keyboard.getEventKey() == Keyboard.KEY_LEFT && Keyboard.getEventKeyState()){
	                System.out.println("left");
	                PacMan.changeDir(2);
	                break;
	            } else if(Keyboard.getEventKey() == Keyboard.KEY_UP && Keyboard.getEventKeyState()){
	                System.out.println("up");
	                PacMan.changeDir(1);
	                break;
	            } else if(Keyboard.getEventKey() == Keyboard.KEY_DOWN && Keyboard.getEventKeyState()){
	                System.out.println("down");
	                PacMan.changeDir(3);
	                break;
	            }
	        }
	    }

[Tech N Gamer]

There are a lot of classes at play here but this method is what detects the keys and pushes them to the proper class.

[fizzlesticks]

When you say it nothing happens, does that mean if you press the "Q" key it prints

in loop

or 

in loop
Q Key

but has no effect

or does it print nothing?

 

If it prints nothing are you calling keyChange inside your game loop?

 

[Tech N Gamer]

1 minute ago, fizzlesticks said:

When you say it does nothing, does that mean if you press the "Q" key it prints

in loop

or 

in loop
Q Key

but has no effect

or does it print nothing?

 

If it prints nothing are you calling keyChange inside your game loop?

 

What it does is it will print nothing and do nothing. Also, KeyChange is not called at all.

[fizzlesticks]

3 minutes ago, Tech N Gamer said:

What it does is it will print nothing and do nothing. Also, KeyChange is not called at all.

Add a call to keyChange inside your game loop, it's not going to call itself.

[prolemur]

4 minutes ago, Tech N Gamer said:

What it does is it will print nothing and do nothing. Also, KeyChange is not called at all.

Well you're going to need to call keyChange somewhere in your program

[Tech N Gamer]

1 minute ago, fizzlesticks said:

Add a call to keyChange inside your game loop, it's not going to call itself.

 

Just now, prolemur said:

Well you're going to need to call keyChange somewhere in your program

Sorry, I forgot it's called KeyChange() and it's in the main loop.

[fizzlesticks]

2 minutes ago, Tech N Gamer said:

 

Sorry, I forgot it's called KeyChange() and it's in the main loop.

So you have a call to the function you posted inside the main loop but it's never being called? Is your code even getting to the main loop?

[Tech N Gamer]

Yea, the main loop posts to the Eclipse Console every 15fps.

[Tech N Gamer]

I figured it out, it's completely skipping the loop for some reason. I found this out after I took out the while and edited the else if to be more proper.

[fizzlesticks]

5 minutes ago, Tech N Gamer said:

Yea, the main loop posts to the Eclipse Console every 15fps.

Could you post the code for your main loop?

Did you accidentally make 2 functions called KeyChange, 1 with a capital 'K' and 1 with a lowercase and you're looking at the wrong one? If everything you've said so far was true it would mean there's a bug in Java for it to not be calling your function.