Anyway to use a local variable with displayAddEventHandler

[f2k sel 164]

The following script reads a key press and returns 1 when pressed 0 when not which is fine but when I change the variable test to _test it won't work.

Any ideas?

Working script

disableSerialization;
sleep 1;
test = 0;
_display = (findDisplay 46);
_display displayAddEventHandler ["KeyDown","if ((_this select 1) == 31) then {test = 1} else {test = 0}"];



while {true} do {
sleep 0.1;
hint format ["test %1",test];	
};

I've also tried

(findDisplay 46) displayAddEventHandler ["KeyDown","null=[_this select 1] execvm 'keypress.sqf'"];

(findDisplay 46) displayAddEventHandler ["KeyDown","null=[_this] execvm 'keypress.sqf'"];

but keypress.sqf is never run unless it's in a loop and then I still can't find any result.

ie

_this select 0;
_this select 1;
_this select 2;

all return any.

Edited January 2, 2012 by F2k Sel

[demonized 20]

think you maybe could use the keyUp version together with keydown.

to pass local variables to something you can use a format of the "" in the eh.

_test = 0;
_lv = format["if ((_this select 1) == 31) then {1} else {%1}",_test];
_display displayAddEventHandler ["KeyDown",_lv];

[f2k sel 164]

Thanks, I also completely forgot that it was an eventhandler so it should pass the info based on _this select I think.

I will try later but have to work right now.

[f2k sel 164]

That didn't actually work but it isn't a problem, I just let it call a script and can read the value just like any other EVH.

Something had messed up and only restarting the game cleared it.

Thanks though.