thanks deadeye, appreciated

I think i figured it out... at least it seems to work.

goes basically like this:

on control pressed ---> set private variable "dash" to 1

every 500 milliseconds

value dash equal to 1 ---> set dash to 0

on control pressed

value dash equal to 1 ---> mess with speed etc.

does anyone know if there's a better way?

i'm trying to make double tapping work (pressing a key twice quickly) for dashing... i see some people posted an example of how to do it but the files are gone.

i'm controlling 8-directional movement for changing the speed and that works fine, i just can't get it to trigger when i want it to. i messed around with private variables and every-x-milliseconds but that hasn't gotten me far...

yes, that did it, thanks very much.

Hi, i'm totally new to construct and trying to spawn bullets when a key is held down. problem is, it spawns a zillion bullets, one right after the other. i need a delay (which i can define) between each shot, but haven't found a way to accomplish that.

I have a feeling it's something really simple, help?