GameCanvas and Soft keys

[cookie_man]

Hey guys. I'm making a game on Nokia 6280 (not that it matters but it is S40 platform).
Now the big question is how can i get acces to the soft keys, and check if they are pressed or not, while the whole game is proggramed using gamecanvas? I've used the getKeyStates() function gut when i press the soft keys, the function returns 0 on each and every 1 of them.

[shmoove]

getKeyStates() is only supposed to be non-zero when you are pressing one of the keys that maps to a game action, so that doesn't include the softkeys.

If you need to access the softkeys you'll have to use keyPressed()/keyReleased(). In order to "fit in" with the rest of the game using getKeyStates, you can set boolean variables in keyPressed() and reset them in keyReleased(). Then you can check the state of the booleans in your game loop.

shmoove

[cookie_man]

tnx, it worked great
i'm making a hexagon game as a project, and had to learn j2me from 0 (ofc i knew j2se and j2ee).
anyway big tnx

[ken-k]

i have the same problem as cookie_man, and i tried shmoove solution to use keyPressed()/keyReleased() events but i noticed that these events don't be called.... i thought that because keyPressed()/keyReleased() are canvas events and i use GameCanvas.

So my question is how i can use these events?

thanks

[shmoove]

GameCanvas is a subclass of Canvas so that shouldn't be a problem (it inherits keyPressed()/keyReleased()).

If you pass true as the suppressKeyEvents parameter of the GameCanvas constructor, then any key that maps to a game action won't fire keyPressed()/keyReleased() events, so check that this isn't the case.

shmoove

[ken-k]

ya thats it shmoove....
it works now,
thanks a lot