vk virtual keycodes

Code:

draw_text(200,20,chr(vk_down));

all i see on the screen is ( how do i make it say down? without doing this

Code:

if chr(vk_down)='('
draw_text(200,20,'down');

i also need to know how to get joystick buttons. i'm trying to make it so a player can set the controls in my game.

Code:

if keyboard_check(vk_down)
draw_text(200,20,"down");

that wasnt helpful. lol

Quote :

how do i make it say down?

That's exactly what it does. If that wasn't helpful please explain better.

it says ")" instead of "down"
i am storing the key codes in a variable.

Code:

global.down=vk_down;

the reason is so that way a player can change the games controls.

Code:

global.down=ord('S');
draw_text(10,10,chr(global.down));

this code displays "S". so i want to know how to get the arrow keys to display "down" "up" "left" "right" not "(" ")" "&" "$"

I think that's not the way it works. First you store the desired keypress in a variable.

Code:

key_1 = ord('W');
key_2 = vk_down;

then you just check the variable whenever you want

Code:

if keyboard_check(key_1)
{
//execute code
}

Arguments such as "vk_down", "vk_left" and such aren't strings you can display: they are constants. For example: true = 1. If you use "true" in a string, it will automatically display 1, and not "true".

So if you were to display "down" when the player presses W, execute for example:
(key_1 has been mapped to ord('W'))

Code:

if keyboard_check(key_1)
draw_text(20,20,"down");

Study how the system works and it'll work just fine.

never mind.

Oh ok..

Quote :

so i want to know how to get the arrow keys to display "down" "up" "left" "right" not "(" ")" "&" "$"

I believe it displays "(" ")" "&" "$ because those are the asci values used for "vk_left", ect...