If you post the relevant section of code, or a link to it, that would help.

It sounds like you have something like this
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if (UserPressesKeyX){
PosX = PosX + 1;
}
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When maybe what you want is
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if (UserPressesKeyX){
Direction = X;
}
elsif (UserPressesKeyY){
Direction = Y;
}
...

if (Direction == Y){
PosY = PoxY + 1;
}
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i.e. you need state variables for movement.
If this is not what your problem is (I know this is trivial - sorry if this is too simple). Is it related to some SVGALIB game api thing or something. Like I said relevant code would be good. Hope this helps.

I know this is an old message, but there are some basic programming tips here... POLLING!

Another possible cause of the problem described is that the program is using a blocking fuction to read the state of the keyboard (such as fgetc), then processing it as soon as the key is pressed.

If this is the case, you need to poll the state of the keyboard before calling the funciton (example below uses fgetc() and stdin as the stream)

This can be achieved using the most useful function in the C library... select().

You pass it some file descriptors, and it returns the number of queued requests...

/* select()/fgetc() polling example */

fd_set *in_set;

FD_ZERO(in_set);
FD_SET(0, in_set);

while (1) {
if (select(1, in_set, NULL, NULL, 0) ) {
ch = fgetc(0);
}

process_char(ch);
}

/* end of example */


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