Various button pressing functions don't seem to do anything?

[ziodice]

So, I've just been messing around with it, not necessarily trying to make a game or anything, but I've been trying to have the program show a picture when I press spacebar.

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function love.load()
	love.graphics.setBackgroundColor(255,0,0)
	<what I named the picture> = love.graphics.newImage("<the name of the picture>")
end

function love.draw()
	if love.keyboard.isDown("spacebar") then
		love.graphics.draw(<what I named the picture>, 300, 400)
	end
end

I have also tried doing this with a

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love.keypressed(key)

function, but that wasn't working either. What happens, in effect, is I run it, it displays backgrounds, no errors, but nothing seems to happen when I press spacebar.

[MadByte]

"spacebar" is not the right constant. It's " " (basically just the actual character)
Keyconstants

[ziodice]

Wow, I feel stupid now. See, I assumed it was an issue with the code because "esc" didn't work either, is "esc" also not the right code for the escape key?

[slime]

is "esc" also not the right code for the escape key?

It's "escape" (as listed on the page MadByte linked.)

[Jasoco]

This got me too back when they switched to using string constants for keys. I was doing "space" too.

Others to remember, Escape is "escape", Enter is "return". You also have Control, Alt, Option, Command and Windows which are "rctrl" or "lctrl" for Right and Left Control, "ralt" and "lalt" for Right and Left Alt (or Option on OS X) and "rgui" and "lgui" for Right and Left Windows Key (Command on OS X).