Stop Users Repeatedly Pressing a Key

Hello!

I am making a small game in Construct 2 and I am unsure how to stop users from repeatedly spamming the mouse button. I want there to be a two-second delay until the user can press the key again.

How would I do this?

Thank you,

Orange

There are lots of ways of doing this...

Here's one

you can give your object an instance variable lets say cooloff

then add "cooloff <= 0" to your fire trigger meaning cooloff must be 0 or less to work

then when you shoot add a value depending how long you want to cooloff

on mouse clicked      fire bullet

                      set cooloff to 20    (adjust this number to suit)

then the condition...

cooloff > 0     subtract 1.0*dt from cooloff

sorry bit rushed, hope that helps...

There are lots of ways of doing this...

Here's one

you can give your object an instance variable lets say cooloff

then add "cooloff <= 0" to your fire trigger meaning cooloff must be 0 or less to work

then when you shoot add a value depending how long you want to cooloff

>on mouse clicked      fire bullet

                      set cooloff to 20    (adjust this number to suit)

then the condition...

>cooloff > 0     subtract 1.0*dt from cooloff

sorry bit rushed, hope that helps...

Hey Pixel!

Thanks for your reply, but I'm a tad confused.... would you have cooloff reduce every tick?

Thank you,

Orange

You don't need to add every tick, it will only reduce cooloff when it is above zero

Dt is delta time the internal clock running all the time, just make one condition...

(your object) compare variable, cooloff > 0....followed by this event

(your object)subtract 1.0* dt from cooloff

Aah, I've figured it out for myself now. Thank you!

pixel perfick

hope you don't mind me using that in the near future :P Very useful.. I find it funny how I can't think of something like that originally but as soon as someone says it I'm like: Oh yeah I probably did know that! <img src="smileys/smiley36.gif" border="0" align="middle" /> <img src="smileys/smiley9.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

Sulli Free to use, just give me credit, lol..kidding.

pixel perfick muhahaha <img src="smileys/smiley14.gif" border="0" align="middle" />