How to slow down or stop key presses in XNA

Question

I\'ve begun writing a game using XNA Framework and have hit some simple problem I do not know how to solve correctly.

I\'m displaying a menu using Texture2D and using th

Answer 1

A nice way of dealing with this kind of thing is to store a counter for each key you're interested in, which you increment every frame if the key is down, and reset to 0 if it's up.

The advantage of this is that you can then test for both the absolute state of the key (if the counter is non-zero the key is down) and also easily check if it's just been pressed this frame for menus and the like (counter is 1). Plus key repeat becomes easy (counter % repeat delay is zero).