Scratch 3.0 Special Key Detection

ItsDaBeans

Hi, im trying to make a platformer, and i kind of want a hold shift to sprint king of thing, and Ive looked, but since scratch 3.0 came out, none of the special key detectors work anymore, so i was wondering, is there still a way to get that in Scratch 3.0? I will give credit.

Summary(for lazy peeps) : I need this :

<key [ shift v] pressed?>

ItsDaBeans

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Abhigyaan

<key [ ItsDaBeans] pressed?>

- Must needed

-Oltimate-

ItsDaBeans wrote:
Hi, im trying to make a platformer, and i kind of want a hold shift to sprint king of thing, and Ive looked, but since scratch 3.0 came out, none of the special key detectors work anymore, so i was wondering, is there still a way to get that in Scratch 3.0? I will give credit.

Summary(for lazy peeps) : I need this :
<key [ shift v] pressed?>

You can't get that because Scratch 3 took away hacked blocks.

^ Check these out ^

SIGNED:
-Oltimate-

-Snipet-

You can do stuff like:

<key (join [] [#])  pressed?>

To see if the “#” key was pressed.

But you can’t do:

<key (join [] [shift])  pressed?>

website =)
Blasted little 60 second rule…

imfh

As of Scratch 3.0, putting stuff in key pressed? does not require hacks, like -Snipet- said. You can freely put blocks at will into it.

It used to be that the ascii character 128 would trigger when special keys like shift were pressed, but it isn't like that anymore. When any key pressed also no longer triggers for special keys.

In summary, I don't think it is possible to detect shift being pressed in the way the op wants.

Scratch to Pygame converter: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/600562/

ItsDaBeans

REPLYING TO EVERYONE

oh.

Scratch_Dad723

Last edited by Scratch_Dad723 (April 18, 2019 01:06:49)

codeman1044

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I_haxx

ItsDaBeans wrote:
Hi, im trying to make a platformer, and i kind of want a hold shift to sprint king of thing, and Ive looked, but since scratch 3.0 came out, none of the special key detectors work anymore, so i was wondering, is there still a way to get that in Scratch 3.0? I will give credit.

Summary(for lazy peeps) : I need this :
<key [ shift v] pressed?>

Well, I haven't found out how to use the shift key, I'm still working on it though. Maybe some of my other projects would help you. Right click, Scrolling engine, etc.

But this would be nice:

<key [ Shift] pressed?>

I_haxx

The thing is, scratch can detect the shift key, when you scroll and hold shift, it scrolls left and right. If you are reading this scratch team, please, I beg you, add in a if shift key pressed.

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UserTECH

EVERYONE!!! I have firgured it out!
You can do

set [key] to [enter]

Then do

when green flag clicked
forever
if <key [ key] pressed?> then
broadcast [ do stuff]
end
end

This actually works! I figured it out
I am still testing with other keys, come back soon with more
sadly no shift key…
scratch doesn't have shift detection in its coding

Last edited by UserTECH (Oct. 3, 2019 21:54:46)

codeman1044

UserTECH wrote:
EVERYONE!!! I have firgured it out!
You can do
set [key] to [enter]
Then do
when green flag clicked
forever
if <key [ key] pressed?> then
broadcast [ do stuff]
end
end
This actually works! I figured it out
I am still testing with other keys, come back soon with more
sadly no shift key…
scratch doesn't have shift detection in its coding

This works more efficiently, as you don't need a variable to make it work:

<key (join [enter] ()) pressed?>

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UserTECH

Hmm… didn't think of that one, that seems much more efficent

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