How to keep detecting if button is pressed in JInput?

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Button and HAT presses in JInput is based on events, meaning if I press Button 1, it will only fire once while I'm holding it down and once again when I release the button. I want to make it so that if I have the button held down, it will still keep calling the method I assigned to it. How do I do this>

If you have control over the main loop, set up a flag that when true, will call you method. If you don't set up a timer that can be triggered on a regular basis until you release the button — MadProgrammer, Nov 17 '13 at 23:17
It would depend on how you've setup you code? Are you using a main loop of some kind or not? — MadProgrammer, Nov 17 '13 at 23:21

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 17 '13 at 23:40

Okay so I did some research and eventually ended up with the following which solved it for me:

    myTimer = new Timer();
    myTimer.schedule(new TimerTask() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            // Do stuff
        }
    }, 50, 50);

Then I call the following on another method when I need to stop the timer.

    myTimer.cancel;
    myTimer.purge;

How to keep detecting if button is pressed in JInput?

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