Custom Keyboard Set-Up GM6

People say this is easy. I, however, am clueless. :P

How do you allow users set their own keyboard set-up when they play your game?

If anyone is confused by what I mean by this, here's an easier explination:
How do you allow users set their own keys for the jump button, the shoot button and movement buttons in GM6?

Thanks in advance.

This post has been edited by Mariotroid on Sep 5 2007, 11:13 PM

I expect keyboard-mapping functions - keyboard_set_map(), keyboard_get_map(), keyboard_unset_map() - are the things to use here. Unfortunately, I've never tried using those functions yet myself, so I'm unsure of precisely how they work. From what I can see, though, it looks fairly self-explanatory; just look them up in the GM Help file.

Well, you could use global variables for the key settings.
Something like:

And then you'd have to code the control events manually like this in the step event:

Then, if you want to be able to save key settings, you're going to have to use an external file.

Really, if you want an example, I have one. I might be able to get it up if want it...

Another note to make is every key on the keyboard has a unique number that identifies it from the others. I would harvest that number and save it to a variable somehow.

And then you'd have to code the control events manually like this in the step event:

Then, if you want to be able to save key settings, you're going to have to use an external file.

Really, if you want an example, I have one. I might be able to get it up if want it...

I'd like to take a look at that example before i try this myself. Thanks for the suggestions people.

Well, this is it. This shows the basics.

BTW, I didn't make this, but I don't know who did. Please DON'T credit me.

I also have another example that sets keys the normal way (click button, wait until key is pressed, set key), but it has a bunch of other stuff that I haven't taken out yet...

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 ConfigurableControlsExample.gm6