Key Commands and Sound Effects

[Skeik-Sprite]

So I was working on my new game, a side scrolling shooter, when I ran into a problem. I had X set as shoot, Space set as jump, and the arrows controlled jumping and shooting.

The problem I ran into was that I couldn't run, look up and jump at the same time. Now that would take me hitting 3 keys at the same time to do, Up, Space, and Right. But when I changed jump to C, I had no problems doing any commands.

Is there any way for me to keep space as jump and not run into that problem?

Also, whenever I add sound effects to games, when they begin playing or when they overlap each other, they stutter the game for about 3 frames. That's only when they overlap though, so I had to take sound effects such as the ones for jumping and landing on the ground out because the game would lag from the sounds of the gun and the jumping coinciding. Could it be the method or is this just a problem I'm going to have to deal with.

[Skeik-Sprite]

Forgot to add,

http://drawlogic.com/2009/01/16/as3-soun dmanager-class-for-flash-updated-for-twe ener/

That's the class I'm using to handle the sounds.

[El-Presidente]

I'm pretty sure that there's no way to avoid the keyboard problem. There are certain keys that can be help down at the same time, but many of the combinations of 3+ don't work. I doubt there's any way to get around it other than changing the keys you use. I ran into this same problem a fair amount. Sorry :(