Hi!

I want my program to play a sound when a certain key is pressed. But the problem is that this happens too rapidly when a key is hold down.

I know that I can use set_keyboard_rate, but I also read that this only affects readkey() while I use key[KEY_NAME]. Can anyone give me some advice on this?

Here a little example:
while (!key[KEY_ESC]) {
if (key[KEY_UP]) {
play_sample(sample, 255, 128, 1000, 0);
}
}

The key array only tells you if a key is up or down. If you want to time that somehow, you'll have to do it yourself. That shouldn't be too hard, though.

So, with rest(time); everywhere? I think that's impossible, because I want to disable repeatment.

Of course not. That wouldn't really work, would it? I meant, do something like:

if(key[KEY_UP] && can_register_keypress)
{
  play_sample(sample, 255, 128, 1000, 0);
  keypress_countdown = 60; //Waits for 60 loops
  can_register_keypress = false;
}

if(keypress_countdown > 0)
  keypress_countdown--;
else if(!can_register_keypress)
  can_register_keypress = true;

</code>

if you want to stick to the key array, something like this should work:

int up_pressed = 0;
if(key[KEY_UP] && !up_pressed) {
   up_pressed = 1;
   do stuff;
}
else if(!key[KEY_UP] && up_pressed) {
   up_pressed = 0;
}
...

That looks great! I'll try something this weekend...

Yeah, if you only want the sound to play once when a key is pressed, do what Thomas said.

If you only want it to play once when a key is pressed use readkey().

... no. That's wrong.

To quote X-G: stop giving shoddy advice.