I'm currently making a game where the premise is typing the alphabet as fast as you can. I have costumes for every single letter of the alphabet and i am just wondering how can you detect if the key you pressed corresponds to the costume (the name or number of the costume). And then when it detects the right key pressed then switches to the next costume.

Something like:

set costume to a
repeat until costume name = success (a costume immediately after z)
if key (costume name) pressed
next costume

PutneyCat wrote:

Something like:

set costume to a
repeat until costume name = success (a costume immediately after z)
if key (costume name) pressed
next costume

Thank you for the code. I appreciate it!

Joe_America_BIden wrote:

PutneyCat wrote:

Something like:

set costume to a
repeat until costume name = success (a costume immediately after z)
if key (costume name) pressed
next costume

Thank you for the code. I appreciate it!

If you are looking to make it case sensitive (e.g. if you press Shift+A), things can get tricky due to the fact that Scratch has removed all ways to sense the shift key being pressed, but you can substitute the shift key for something like @ or ~, which require they shift key to be pressed. You can do something like this:

when green flag clicked
forever
if <key [~ v] pressed?> then 
set [shift? v] to [true] // When the tilde key is pressed, it kind of acts like a light switch; once flipped, you un-press it and then press a key like k to make it a capital K.
wait until <key [k v] pressed?>
switch costume to [k2 v] // You could do this for each and every letter, but I'm sure there is a better way that I am currently unaware of.
end

Quick thing to note: Scratch also doesn't care about case sensitivity, so costumes are generally used to represent case sensitivity, since costumes aren't affected by this. That being said, you still can't do something simple to detect case sensitivity, more technical things are used, which can be found here, on the Scratch Wiki.