questions about basic tutorial (pong)

[da]

Hi, I'm a fan, I tried to register but was not able to do so. I posted about that in the general section.

I would like to know how to circumvent the fact that when I add an object to the pong screen, for example a text box or something else the isKeyPressed stops working.

From what I can tell the "focus" (from my vb6 days) is set on the text box and so the main screen no longer is picking up input. I would like to have several added things to the screen so I'm curious how I could fix this.

Even a simple game like pong should have a score box and stuff, but I'm working on a slightly more complicated game and I would appreciate some help Ashley.

-da

[Ashley]

Well I havent checked this out myself, but it seems that the textbox is waiting for input and is overriding the isKeyPressed method.. I will try and have a look into ways around this, however the only alternative i can think of is to use labels instead of textboxes.

Hope that helps
Ashley

[da]

i ended up using

protected override bool ProcessCmdKey(ref Message msg, Keys keyData)

i found this solution online using google.

[Ashley]

Good, glad you got it working