Hi. I''m trying to get some extra credit for my physics class by making a 3D graph in openGL. I want to have limited camera control to move around the graph, but my computer says otherwise. I''m trying doing input like this: At the top of my program, I have a global variable: bool keysDown[256] In my WinProcedure function, I have the message switch looking for WM_KEYDOWN and WM_KEYUP: ... case WM_KEYDOWN: keysDown[lparam] = true; break; case WM_KEYUP: keysDown[lparam] = false; break; .... It compiles all fine but when I run it, it crashes whenever I hit a key, giving me one of those illegal operation err deelies. Here''s what it says: GRAPHTEST caused an invalid page fault in module GRAPHTEST.EXE at 0177:004012c1. Registers: EAX=011c0001 CS=0177 EIP=004012c1 EFLGS=00010246 EBX=0065fc14 SS=017f ESP=0065fb38 EBP=0065fb94 ECX=00000000 DS=017f ESI=0053075c FS=36ff EDX=00008c54 ES=017f EDI=0065fb94 GS=2a9f Bytes at CS:EIP: c6 80 60 9c 42 00 01 eb 0a 8b 4d 14 c6 81 60 9c Stack dump: 00000000 0053075c 0065fc14 cccccccc cccccccc cccccccc cccccccc cccccccc cccccccc cccccccc cccccccc cccccccc cccccccc cccccccc cccccccc cccccccc Pressing DEBUG, I get a message saying: Unhandled exception in graphtest.exe: 0xC0000005: Access Violation And finally I get a little arrow pointing to the line: case WM_KEYDOWN: g_keys[lparam] = true; break; Can anyone help me figure out what''s gone awry here? Thnx in advance.

try wParam, not lParam.
(more info: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/winui/windowsuserinterface/userinput/keyboardinput/keyboardinputreference/keyboardinputmessages/wm_keydown.asp)

Your loc says IL... are you in college, and are you attending in IL?

instead of keeping track of 256 keys all at once, use GetAsyncKeyState(virtual_keycode) to check if certain keys are down or up. GetAsyncKeyState returns true if the key is down and false if the key is up. I forget what the values of the key codes are, but they are defined as constants in the windows header files, so you can look them up in your help files.