isKeyPressed

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• #1, by andy-rinaldi Wednesday, 08. October 2014, 23:06 13 years ago

  Hi, I need to write a character as * or < and I'm not able to find it in Key Actions. I was thinking to use lua:
  
  

  if isKeyPressed(z) then
      add("Z")
  end
  

  
  
  but it's no works.
  
  Also I tried with isKeyDown but nothing happened.
  
  Thanks.
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• #2, by afrlme Thursday, 09. October 2014, 00:31 13 years ago

  Lua key input support was only recently added to 4.1. You need to create a keyboard event handler to check key pressed/released & special keys.
  
  http://wiki.visionaire-tracker.net/wiki/RegisterEventHandler -- check example 3.
  
  Keydown will constantly trigger code if character == x
  keyup will only trigger once on release
  textkeyinput is for unicode characters...
  
  there are also some special keys that have their own eKey access, which I will add to the _(CMS) page version I will get around to typing up at some point.