Issues with Input

[GravityGamesInteractive]

Hello, I've been having a few issues with input on my HTML5 game. I've tested that the boolean variables leftPressed and rightPressed are being set correctly, and they are, but when I try to access them outside of the Game Object, I get moot, not even an undefined error. I think I'm always getting false, but I'm not sure. Here's the relevant code:

 

Game Object:

var Game = function() {	...document.addEventListener('keydown', function(event) {    if (event.keyCode == 37) {		leftPressed=true;    }    else if (event.keyCode == 39) {		rightPressed=true;    }});document.addEventListener('keyup', function(event) {    	if(event.keyCode == 37) {			leftPressed=false;    	}    	else if(event.keyCode == 39) {			rightPressed=false;    	}}); ...

Other Object:

if(this.game.leftPressed){     this.x-=2;}if(this.game.rightPressed){     this.x+=2;}

[EmployeeNumber8]

You missed the "this" keyword when you assign to leftPressed and rightPressed

 

I'm going to assume it was just a typo. We've all done it haha.

[ericjbasti]

Actually it more than just a 'this'. In that context 'this' is referring to the document. 

 

Since it looks like you have a global object of Game, well use that: 

document.addEventListener('keydown', function(event) {    if (event.keyCode == 37) {		Game.leftPressed=true;    }    else if (event.keyCode == 39) {		Game.rightPressed=true;    }});document.addEventListener('keyup', function(event) {    	if(event.keyCode == 37) {			Game.leftPressed=false;    	}    	else if(event.keyCode == 39) {			Game.rightPressed=false;    	}});

if(Game.leftPressed){     this.x-=2;}if(Game.rightPressed){     this.x+=2;}

This can probably be cleaned up a bit... but based on the code provided this should work.

[GravityGamesInteractive]

Thanks ericjbasti, that seemed to work! Now I can stop passing in so many input related booleans to the update loop.