When checking keyboard function, I basically want to have the player be able to jump and move at the same time. The first way I tried this was as so:

void CheckKeys()
{

if (keys.IsKeyDown(Keys.Left))
{
MoveCharLeft();
}

if (keys.IsKeyDown(Keys.Up))
{
JumpChar();
}
}

And it didn't update fast enough to do both, so I tried:

void CheckKeys()
{
if (keys.IsKeyDown(Keys.Left) && keys.IsKeyDown(Keys.Up)))
{
MoveCharLeft();
JumpChar();
}
}

just checking,

you are calling

KeyboardState keys = Keyboard.GetState();

Yes,

The first example works, just not correctly. It has it either moving or jumping; just not both. The second example won't even fire for some reason.

EDIT:Figured it out, was using a series of else if's to check different key presses and forgot that a chain of if elses under and if statement only applies to the first if, and it was assuming all was well after the first if and skipping the rest.

Zeriku:

EDIT:Figured it out, was using a series of else if's to check different key presses and forgot that a chain of if elses under and if statement only applies to the first if, and it was assuming all was well after the first if and skipping the rest.

Meaning, the code you posted wasn't what you were actually using? There's not much chance of us helping out in that case.

Zeriku:

Look, it was 3am in the morning and I was trying to get something out before I went to bed. I said I figured it out, why post in this thread just to bash me for not posting the original code?

Zeriku:

Look, it was 3am in the morning and I was trying to get something out before I went to bed. I said I figured it out, why post in this thread just to bash me for not posting the original code?

The people around here don't generally bash.  ;-)  The fastest way to post your code is to copy and paste...

Nick Gravelyn:

Zeriku:

Look, it was 3am in the morning and I was trying to get something out before I went to bed. I said I figured it out, why post in this thread just to bash me for not posting the original code?

He wasn't bashing you, he is trying to explain that if you don't post your actual code we can't help. The code you give us has to be the same thing you are looking at otherwise you might miss typos or other little things. He was simply saying that next time you post code you should do a direct copy/paste from your code rather than typing in something that's similar.

Exactly. Notice that question mark at the end of the first sentence in my previous post? That means I'm asking if that's the case, not bashing. :)

Help us help you. As has been stated copy and paste your code, don't retype it. That way we're both looking at the same thing.