<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252">
</head>
<body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">
The way to do this is to control the event with logic, rather than a timer. Create a boolean variable called “gameOn” or something like that that is initially false. When the countdown is finished, set the variable to true. In the arrow buttons events, put
the action inside an if statement so the movement only occurs if gameOn is currently true.
<div><br>
</div>
<div>I’m still on Alice 2, but there should be something similar in Alice 3.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>James<br>
<div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">
<div>--</div>
<div>Dr. James Vanderhyde</div>
<div>Math and Computer Science</div>
<div>Benedictine College</div>
<div><a href="mailto:jvanderhyde@benedictine.edu">jvanderhyde@benedictine.edu</a></div>
<div><a href="http://vanderhyde.us/~james/pro/">http://vanderhyde.us/~james/pro/</a></div>
</div>
</span></div>
<br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
</span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
</div>
<br>
<div>
<div>On Jun 2, 2014, at 9:29 AM, JOHNSON JULIE M. <<a href="mailto:JJOHNSON@williamsvillek12.org">JJOHNSON@williamsvillek12.org</a>> wrote:</div>
<br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
<blockquote type="cite">
<div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">
<div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;">
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
I do not want the user to be able to press the arrow buttons on the keyboard to start a race between two objects until the countdown is finished. I tried a delay in the event listener but it did not work. <o:p></o:p></div>
</div>
_______________________________________________<br>
alice-teachers mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;">alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu</a><br>
<a href="https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;">https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers</a></div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<br>
</div>
</body>
</html>