How to make a button press only once? (SOLVED)

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#1

So… uhm…

I’m kind of absolutely new to Defold, and I’m just trying to figure out how to get a button to only register that it has been pressed once without continuing to do more things afterwards. Also, strange things happen as I try to get the input to change a variable. It stays one value and just spams it in the debug. I’ve tried to make a boolean for the button but it’s not working…?

This is the code I’m working with:

if curstate == "title" then
		if action_id == hash("up") and antibutton == false then
			if action.pressed then
				if curselect == "start" then
					curselect = "quit"
				end
				if curselect == "quit" then
					curselect = "option"
				end
				if curselect == "option" then
					curselect = "start"
				end
			end
		end
		if action_id == hash("down") and antibutton == false then
			if action.pressed then
				if curselect == "start" then
					curselect = "option"
				end
				if curselect == "option" then
					curselect = "quit"
				end
				if curselect == "quit" then
					curselect = "start"
				end
			end
		end
--		if action_id == hash("up") and action.repeated or action_id == hash("down") and action.repeated then
--			antibutton = true
--		end
--		if action_id == hash("up") and action.pressed or action_id == hash("down") and action.pressed then
--			antibutton = true
--		end
--		if action_id == hash("up") and action.released and action_id == hash("down") and action.released then
--			antibutton = false
--		end
		print(curselect)

I would appreciate any help, thank you.

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#2

try something like this:
if action_id == hash(“my_action”) and action.pressed then … end (action.pressed inside the first if)

edit: not on your first ‘if’ but the ones that you need to check if a button is pressed.

#3

Thanks, I’ll try that

#4

Uh
It didn’t work…?

Well okay, let’s me specify what I wanted:

Just one input, not trying to get an input every single frame. It’s supposed to be only one button press, then it has to wait until release and then it could go for another press.

Thanks for the help anyway, though

#5

One problem I noticed in your code is this section:

if curselect == "start" then
  curselect = "option"
end
if curselect == "option" then
  curselect = "quit"
end
if curselect == "quit" then
  curselect = "start"
end

Let’s say curselect is currently set to "start". The top condition will be true, so curselect will then be set to "option". Now, the second condition is true, so curselect gets set to "quit". Then, the third condition is true, so curselect gets set back to "start". To fix that, you use elseifs like so:

if curselect == "start" then
  curselect = "option"
elseif curselect == "option" then
  curselect = "quit"
elseif curselect == "quit" then
  curselect = "start"
end

I went ahead and fixed that, as well as simplifying the rest of the code, which should work now:

if curstate == "title" then
  if action_id == hash("up") and action.pressed then
      if curselect == "start" then
        curselect = "quit"
      elseif curselect == "quit" then
        curselect = "option"
      elseif curselect == "option" then
        curselect = "start"
      end
  elseif action_id == hash("down") and action.pressed then
    if curselect == "start" then
      curselect = "option"
    elseif curselect == "option" then
      curselect = "quit"
    elseif curselect == "quit" then
      curselect = "start"
    end
  end
end
print(curselect)

P.S. Please take the time to format your code when asking questions, it makes it way easier for others to understand it and spot errors. You can add the fancy highlighting by wrapping it in backticks:
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#6

Thank you~
(Both for telling me how to format code and for the fix)

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