Multiple keys as one command

[lolsasory]

is there a way to do something like love.keyboard.isDown("return") love.keyboard.isDown("kpenter") have the same command
ive tried

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 if blaa blaa and
love.keyboard.isDown("return") or
love.keyboard.isDown("kpenter") then
blaa blaa
end

but that doesnt work

i also want to do it so W and the up arrow do the same thing
any thoughts?

[substitute541]

is there a way to do something like love.keyboard.isDown("return") love.keyboard.isDown("kpenter") have the same command
ive tried

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 if blaa blaa and
love.keyboard.isDown("return") or
love.keyboard.isDown("kpenter") then
blaa blaa
end

but that doesnt work

You should have done this :

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if abooleanvalue and (keyDown1 or keyDown2) then
    makecake
end

Don't forget the parentheses. They group it all together.
Replace those random names with the real statements...

[lolsasory]

You should have done this :

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if abooleanvalue and (keyDown1 or keyDown2) then
    makecake
end

Don't forget the parentheses. They group it all together.
Replace those random names with the real statements...[/quote]

Thanks works!:)

[Robin]

Also, love.keyboard.isDown allows this:

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if blaa blaa and love.keyboard.isDown("return", "kpenter") then
    blaa blaa
end

[Ref]

Question: why aren't capital letters supported?
Seems rather clunky to have to do:

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if ky.isDown('lshift','rshift') and ky.isDown('z') then zoom = zoom + dt end
if ky.isDown( 'z' ) and not ky.isDown('lshift','rshift') then zoom = zoom > 0.1  and zoom - dt or dt end

Is there a better alternative?

[bartbes]

Because the capitals aren't buttons.

[Inny]

In the love.keypressed handler, the two parameters it receives, k and u, correspond to the Key that was pressed to create the event (meaning what you'd check with love.keyboard.isDown), and the Unicode codepoint that matches. So, if they were holding left-shift, and pressed z, you get love.keypressed("z", 90). Lowercase z for the key pressed, and 90 for the unicode codepoint for upppercase Z. When you run the unicode codepoint through string.char, for the first 126 codepoints, you get the corresponding english character/number/punctuation. This is handy for english keyboard input. However, it doesn't work with anything above 126, as Lua lacks unicode support.

[Przemator]

This is handy for english keyboard input. However, it doesn't work with anything above 126, as Lua lacks unicode support.

You can convert the unicode into string, you can try a function, like this:

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function love.load()
	tab = {}
	txt = ""
	font = love.graphics.newFont("consola.ttf", 20)
	love.graphics.setFont(font)
end

function love.draw()
	love.graphics.print(txt, 0, 0)
end

function love.keypressed(key, code)
	table.insert(tab, code)
	txt = conv2utf8(tab)
end

function conv2utf8(unicode_list)
	local result = ""
	local w,x,y,z = 0,0,0,0
	for i,v in ipairs(unicode_list) do
		if v ~= 0 and v ~= nil then
			if v <= 0x7F then -- same as ASCII
				result = result .. string.char(v)
			elseif v >= 0x80 and v <= 0x7FF then -- 2 bytes
				y = math.floor((v % 0x000800) / 64)
				z = v % 0x000040
				result = result .. string.char(0xC0 + y, 0x80 + z)
			elseif (v >= 0x800 and v <= 0xD7FF) or (v >= 0xE000 and v <= 0xFFFF) then -- 3 bytes
				x = math.floor((v % 0x010000) / 4096)
				y = math.floor((v % 0x001000) / 64)
				z = v % 0x000040
				result = result .. string.char(0xE0 + x, 0x80 + y, 0x80 + z)
			elseif (v >= 0x10000 and v <= 0x10FFFF) then -- 4 bytes
				w = math.floor((v % 0x200000) / 262144)
				x = math.floor((v % 0x040000) / 4096)
				y = math.floor((v % 0x001000) / 64)
				z = v % 0x000040
				result = result .. string.char(0xF0 + w, 0x80 + x, 0x80 + y, 0x80 + z)
			end
		end
	end
	return result
end

[Inny]

You can convert the unicode into string, you can try a function, like this: ...

That looks like an awesome candidate for https://love2d.org/wiki/Category:Snippets , Care to put it up there?