Take control input

Hi to all,
I would use the control function to capture 2 or more consecutive key press, to do a fight game. I want to re-create the 'combo' concept, and using only 'page-up' and 'page-down' keys doing different combination of attack or defense.
So, I would start a particular animation only when I press 2 times the 'page-up' and 1 time the 'page-down'. Or another anim when I press only 1 time the 'page-down'

Any idea ??

Thanks a lot !!!
Masai

Translate each key press into a character and build a string to represent presses so far.
Then if the last n characters of your string match your trigger requirements perform the required move/animation.

I would advise inputting some way of clearing the string periodically...like when you complete a combo, or some other variable. A timer would be nice, but it would potentially break a correctly executed combo. Perhaps an 'idle-timer' or something that clears it after no presses for X seconds.

Well thats a given really, but yes I'd only keep track of the longest possible combination plus a couple of characters.