Good night

I'm new in game programming, so I have some questions.

I'm doing a shooter game, like Gradius, a 2d game with side scrolling.

I have my ship controls working fine, but now the problem is: How can I make a shot (a bullet, for example) starts to navigate across screen when I activate "space" key on keyboard?

I know how to make something to move based on a specific key, but I cant figure how to make this key trigger an event as a bullet, and in what I could base this bullet to navigate in screen.

Sorry for my low quality English, I'm from Brazil, so English is a foreign language for me.

Thanks in advance.

on_space or key_space helps here, example in the manual.

Thanks for reply mate

I was walking in the wrong path...trying to use ent_create and c_move to move the bullets. Guess isnt the best choice for 2D games.

Now i'm using a "PANEL* bullets[100]" pointer, so I can control bullets independently at every cicle.

I'm using also a "loop()" function, that will call functions to update ship position, bullets position, and all other things.

If someone, someday, have similar doubts in 2D games, I can indicate AUM, especially editions 81 ~ 85 who had helped me a lot.

The cool part of Lite-C is that it's fast to learn how to use the main features.

Best regards