keyboard_lastkey;
Returns: Real
This variable refers to the value that keyboard_key was
in the previous frame, returning the keycode of that key (all
standard keycode constants are returned). This variable is
not read only and you can change it, for example to set it
to -1 if you handled it already.
if (keyboard_lastkey != -1)
{
str += keyboard_lastchar;
keyboard_lastkey = -1;
}
The above code checks to see if the lastkey variable is not equal to -1, and if it is it adds whatever the last key was as a string to the variable "str", then it resets the keyboard_lastkey variable to accept further input.