Only started learning Panda3D the other day and I’m a bit stumped as to the “right way” to have events happening continuously while a key is pressed, then stop immediately when it is released (i.e. moving the camera around).
I tried re-creating the basic bits of the movement code from the Roaming Ralph sample program, but for some reason my function moveCamera() won’t read the state of “forward” in keyMap, or else the function isn’t being triggered at all.
from direct.showbase.ShowBase import ShowBase
from direct.task.Task import Task
import sys
class MyApp(ShowBase):
def __init__(self):
ShowBase.__init__(self)
self.keyMap = {"forward":0}
self.accept('escape', sys.exit)
self.accept('w', self.setKey, ["forward",1])
self.accept('w-up', self.setKey, ["forward",0])
self.taskMgr.add(self.moveCamera,'moveCamera')
# Sets the value in the keyMap depending on if the key is pressed or not
def setKey(self, key, value):
self.keyMap[key] = value
print("Hello") # Prints when a value in the keymap changes
# The part that isn't working
def moveCamera(self, task):
if (self.keyMap["forward"]!=0):
print("Things are happening") # Should print repeatedly while a key is being pressed; it doesn't
app = MyApp()
app.run()Can anybody see why my code isn’t working? As far as I can tell I’ve recreated all the essential bits for this feature from the sample program, but it’s only half-working. Any help is appreciated, complete noob here 
