Conditional Branch Button Press?

[DayLITE]

Hello everyone.
I usually keep to myself and never usually ask for help (I'm a stubborn unowatsit)
However I have hit a wall that seems indestructibale.

Remember reading files in most survival horrors?





 

I'm trying to do something similar here but I need to the player to be able to press a button to 'flip the page' as it were.
I'm using a condition branch atm:



What puzzles me though is that not only doesn't the key press work (Not matter what A is assigned to) it doesn't seem to register.

I obviously missing something. Can you kind people help me?

(also is it possible to disable certain key inputs? I don't want people running off whilst the event in progress)

Thanks in advance!

 

[Engr. Adiktuzmiko]

you can have a parallel process checking if a key is pressed... because right now, it will only check for the button press at the exact time that the 30 frame wait ends... 

else, I think Tsukihime has a script for this

 

[Shaz]

The way you have it set up, it will check for a key being pressed at the exact moment the event is run (and the page is displayed) - it is a "is key being pressed NOW" check, not a "wait for key to be pressed" command. You need to have a loop that continually checks for key presses.


So create a second event that's set as parallel process that just does the checking for key press and takes the appropriate action, and condition it by a switch. Then in your existing event, instead of checking for keys, just turn on the switch. Make sure the switch is turned off again when the book is closed.

 

[Andar]

you're displaying a picture with the text on the picture - in that case don't even bother with the conditional branches or parallel process, there is a much easier way:

1) command "show picture"

2) command "show text" with empty text and window set to transparent (creates an empty and invisible message waiting for confirmation)

3) command "erase picture"

No need for extra waits or button checks

 

[DayLITE]

Thank you adiktuzmiko & Shaz

It's working! 

Andar I almost resorted to doing that but I prefer the effect of my own text on there.
Thanks for the advice though.

 

[Engr. Adiktuzmiko]

Andar's method is actually faster and I think more efficient... and it doesn't really change anything to be on the bad side, you still just show the picture, then the event won't proceed until the player presses A (so he can't move too etc, which is you wanted too right?)

The text is still the one on your picture... you will not put a text in the show text box, you're just gonna use it so that the event doesn't proceed until the player presses A...

 

[Shaz]

Andar isn't saying to USE Show Text to show your text. He's saying to show the picture, and then to use Show Text with NO text and a transparent text window to make it wait for a button press. So your picture will be displayed, and the game will wait for the player to press a button (behind the scenes it THINKS it's showing text and waiting for you to close the text box, but that's not what the player sees). It's actually a very good and easy way to do it.


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