Get all keys currently pressed

[clofresh]

Hello,

I've been following Love's progress for a while and finally got a chance to start a game with it. I was wondering if there was a way to get all the keys currently pressed, instead of having to check each key that you cared about? I couldn't find anything on the wiki or searching the forums.

[tv_user]

As far as I'm aware, you can't do it in one go. It's possible (but perhaps unnecessary) to test for EVERY key with

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love.keyboard.isDown( key )

but I don't think that would help at all. Honestly, I like the way LOVE handles keyboard input, because you end up not having to test for keypress every frame as it just triggers the event with the callback function love.keypressed( key)
For a different perspective on dealing with keypress, there's a nice article here. There are also some libraries made by LOVE users, to simplify key binding, etc - just check the Wiki.
Good luck.

[kikito]

Forget about love.keyboard. Use love.keypressed and love.keyreleased to update a table instead.

Example (download and change extension to .zip to see the contents):

keys_pressed.love

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Note that the amount of simultaneously pressed keys is limited to between 3 and 6 - that's a limitation on your hardware or operative system that love can't overcome.

[qaisjp]

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KeysPressed = {}
function love.keypressed(a, b)
    KeysPressed[a]=b
end
function love.keyreleased(a)
    KeysPressed[a] = nil
end

then to check, just do KeysPressed["w"] etc. the value is the unicode value.

[tv_user]

wow, nice kikito, I hadn't thought of handling it like that! We keep on learning...

[clofresh]

Ah! Great solution, thanks kikito!

[Nixola]

Forget about love.keyboard. Use love.keypressed and love.keyreleased to update a table instead.

Example (download and change extension to .zip to see the contents):

keys_pressed.love

Note that the amount of simultaneously pressed keys is limited to between 3 and 6 - that's a limitation on your hardware or operative system that love can't overcome.

I managed to press 9 keys at once.

[Lafolie]

I think it depends on your individual hardware. Macbook Pro keyboards seem to have some strange rules here, I seem to be able to press combinations depending no the x and y, if you will, of the keys already pressed. Also the arrow keys only seems to allow 2 arrow keys to be down at a time.

[bartbes]

Most keyboards divide the keys into groups, and there's a limit to the amount of keys you can press within a group. (And therefore the amount of keys in total.)

[stout]

Forget about love.keyboard. Use [wiki]love.keypressed[/wiki] and [wiki]love.keyreleased[/wiki] to update a table instead.

Example (download and change extension to .zip to see the contents):

keys_pressed.love

Note that the amount of simultaneously pressed keys is limited to between 3 and 6 - that's a limitation on your hardware or operative system that love can't overcome.

How would you adapt this for the joystick module to see what buttons are currently being pressed?

EDIT: ah, just found love.joystickpressed and released, nevermind!