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I'm still kinda new to programming, and i find Small Basic pretty easy to use but I'm not catching on completely...seems like I could use a few more tutorials/guides =). For example, I'm trying to make a small drawing program where you can select pre-set colors by pressing keys 1 through 9 (and 0), but I'm having a hard time understanding how to use GraphicsWindow.Keydown to do this..or is there no way to have the program know what key the user has pressed/selected as of yet? Anyway, still a complete newbie with programming :D I've went through the whole introduction to small basic PDF, was pretty easy to understand the things it went over..it's just seems like it's missing a lot more how-to's. (Maybe provide examples for each event, etc?)

Answer 1

SubZero,

You can check out the PaintProgram.sb sample that is installed in the Samples folder (%Documents%\Small Basic\Samples).  This sample uses the GraphicsWindow.LastKey property to change the color of the pen, while handling the GraphicsWindow.KeyDown event.

Answer 2

 You can use the following:

IF (GraphicsWindow.LastKey = "Right") Then
<commands>
EndIF

to use the right arrow key.  "Left" is the left arrow, "Down" is the down arrow and "Up" is the up arrow.