Spacebar tap function?

[xronn]

I'm using the spacebar as shown below -

interactButton = game.input.keyboard.addKey(Phaser.Keyboard.SPACEBAR);

Then I call it as such - 

if (quest1 == false && interactButton.isDown)

The problem is if you tap the spacebar you hold it down for 3 or 4 milliseconds thus meaning the if statement is run 3 or 4 times, which isn't any good.

If I change it too - 

if (quest1 == false && interactButton.isUp)

Then when I tap the spacebar the whole time it's up after the tap which is until I press it down again it loops through the if statement which isn't any good either. Does Phaser support something like a tap listener so when its down and then up it runs once not 100s of times as it currently does.

[CtlAltDel]

read: http://phaser.io/examples/v2/input/keyboard-justpressed

for a lot of options

[Skeptron]

http://www.html5gamedevs.com/topic/3541-listener-functions-how-do-i-properly-use-them/

[xronn]

read: http://phaser.io/examples/v2/input/keyboard-justpressed

for a lot of options

 

This is basically what I need however it uses the isDown call which is what Im using... Do you know if it solves the issue just by adding time between events, I didn't really want to start adding timed delays between keyboard input.

 

http://www.html5gamedevs.com/topic/3541-listener-functions-how-do-i-properly-use-them/

A callback method will work for everyone who uses a key for a single purpose e.g. moving the player up... However my spacebar input is used as an interaction thus requiring it to be used all over my game so it can't have a single callback. 

[drhayes]

Why not have multiple callbacks? onDown is a Phaser.Signal, which means it can have multiple listeners. Each callback could decide if it's appropriate to respond to the spacebar being pressed dynamically.