What is the smartest way to detect keypresses in uwp?

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Hi,
I am working on a UWP game engine and am thinking of the best way to find out what keys are pressed at any given moment. I'm considering skipping keyboard events and instead do a check in my gameloop a few times per second. The reason for this is that I want the user to be able to press different combinations of keys, such as two arrow keys to move diagonally while firing a laser gun at the same time. What should I use? My guess is that I should try the Keyboard.IsKeyDown method. Is this a good idea?

Thanks!

What I have tried:

I haven't tried this yet, but am asking anyway as there are usually so many ways to do this.

Posted 29-Dec-16 14:49pm

petter2012

Updated 29-Dec-16 22:14pm

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Richard MacCutchan · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-29T22:14:00

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See keyboard uwp - Google Search[^].

Posted 29-Dec-16 22:14pm

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petter2012 30-Dec-16 5:10am

hi
Well, I've tried this of course and the problem I tried to explain is that there are so many variations, hence my question.

Richard MacCutchan 30-Dec-16 5:54am

Well the 'best' way is the way that works for your application.

petter2012 30-Dec-16 6:24am

hi again,
sorry if I was unclear. Most game engine implementations use keyboard events, but I find that conceptually competing with the game loop. Thus , I am curious if it's possible to do if statements checking for different pressed keys and if this is a good approach.

Thanks for your answers so far.

Richard MacCutchan 30-Dec-16 6:28am

No, the best approach is to use events, since the framework does all the hard work for you.

petter2012 30-Dec-16 6:53am

ok, thanks!