Controller button held down

[teepo]

Hi.. I'm a pretty new programmer and I'm new to sega genesis and game programming in general. I'm using sgdk

I want to know, how can you detect if a button is held down and constantly do something while it is held down. for instance moving a character right while the right button is held down?

I looked into the sgdk joypad handling source code and it says it updates controller state at each vblank period and only fires an event whenever a state change is detected.

[Stef]

Hi,

You should look into the sample source code.
The cube flat example exactly do what you want to do to make the cube spinning faster or slower :

http://code.google.com/p/sgdk/source/br ... lat/main.c

The method you have to use is

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joyState = JOY_readJoypad(joy_number);

so it returns the current button state of the specified joystick.

[teepo]

Thanks

For some reason, looking through the samples escaped my mind completely.