onKeyDown stop working for a key when another one is pressed

[Tokyonono]

This problem can be easily reproduced on the Hello World sample.

Add "this.setKeyboardEnabled(true);" in the init method of a layer.
Add the following method to that layer:
onKeyDown:function(e){
console.log(e);
}

When a key is pressed, the console will show that key in the console at each update (it works for a combination of keys as well). If you keep pressing a key then press another one, only the last one will be shown in the console.

In most of platform games we need to be able to move and press a jump/shoot button at the same time. It can be easily by-passed (keep in memory that a button is pressed and release it on onKeyUp), but it is painful and doesn't seem to be a natural behavior.

[Tokyonono]

No comment on this? Nobody uses keyboard in video games nowadays?

[Wu-Hao]

This event fires when a key is being pressed down, and the corresponding keycode is parsed in as a parameter.
You need to keep track of what keys are being held down.

for example, WASD moves a character in 4 directions, When W is keydown, you can record that state in your game logic. then in your character update, check if W is being held down, if so, move up. if W and D is being held down, move up right

[Tokyonono]

That is what I do, and it works (as I explained in the last sentence of the first message), but it is a by-pass. It should work properly in Cocos2D-html5.
The problem is in your logic:

• Either "onKeyDown" is called at the moment the button is pressed and then it stops being fired at every update
• Or "onKeyDown" is fired at every update with the proper list of all currently pressed buttons
  Now we have a mix of both approaches:
• "onKeyDown" is fired at every update but only with the list of the latest pressed buttons.

The difference between Cocos2D-html5 and the other branches: keyboard matters now.

[Tokyonono]

PS: I will to provide you with a fix if I have time to work on it