simple keyboard driven menu

[robotsquid]

hi, i'm attempting to make an interactive for a museum.  it needs to display a background image and play videos when certain keys are pressed.  so you press 1 and it plays video 1 etc.  while i've found on_key_press and PlayVideo in the wiki i'm none the wiser how to put them together.  if anybody who actually knows what they're doing could give me an example script i could adapt that would save me a lot of head scratching.

i normally stick to the video production but offered to help with the interactive for free as they didn't have the money (£1000s) to hire one of the companies that normally makes these things.  having played with AGS years ago i knew it was capable, just thought the how would be a little simpler.

anyway, posting here is a last resort after a lot of head scratching so any help would be greatly appreciated.

[robotsquid]

this is what i have atm:

Code: ags

function on_key_press eKey1 ()
{
PlayVideo c:\inttest\lq.avi eVideoSkipAnyKey 1
}

[Slasher]

Hi

example in on_key_press  function in the Global when pressing A key:

Code: ags

 if (keycode == eKeyA ){
 PlayVideo("BLACKNIGHT-GLOBE.mp4", eVideoSkipEscKey, 1); //Escape to stop video

[robotsquid]

so i have the on key press part in room script and the if parts in the global script?

[Slasher]

I have it in the Global so it applies to all rooms. You can add 'conditions' that allow it to run.

example

Code: ags

 if (keycode == eKeyA && playvideo1==false){ // and if boolean playvideo1==false
 PlayVideo("BLACKNIGHT-GLOBE.mp4", eVideoSkipEscKey, 1); //Escape to stop video
 playvideo1=true;

[robotsquid]

okay, got it working.  thanks for your help slasher.

[Khris]

Just for reference, AGS will also look in the current room script for on_key_press() and if found, call it.

So if you want the app to have multiple screens where pressing 1 does something different each time, you can do that easily.

Code: ags

// room script

function on_key_press(eKeyCode k) {

  if (k == eKeyCode1) {
    PlayVideo("lq.avi", eVideoSkipAnyKey , 1);
  }
  if (k == eKeyCode2) {
    PlayVideo("something_else.avi", eVideoSkipAnyKey , 1);
  }
  // ...
}

[robotsquid]

can see that coming in handy.  cheers!