Re: [pygame] Key Presses

[Nicholas Dudfield <ndudfield@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ian,

In [1]: import pygame

In [2]: pygame.K_QUESTION
Out[2]: 63

In [3]: chr(pygame.K_QUESTION)
Out[3]: '?'

In [4]: chr(pygame.K_TAB)
Out[4]: '\t'

http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/key.html

"""
There are many keyboard constants, they are used to represent keys on 
the keyboard. The following is a list of all keyboard constants

     KeyASCII      ASCII   Common Name
     K_BACKSPACE   \b      backspace
     K_TAB         \t      tab
     K_CLEAR               clear
     K_RETURN      \r      return
     K_PAUSE               pause
     K_ESCAPE      ^[      escape
     K_SPACE               space
     K_EXCLAIM     !       exclaim
     K_QUOTEDBL    "       quotedbl
     K_HASH        #       hash
     K_DOLLAR      $       dollar
     K_AMPERSAND   &       ampersand
     K_QUOTE               quote
     K_LEFTPAREN   (       left parenthesis
     K_RIGHTPAREN  )       right parenthesis
     K_ASTERISK    *       asterisk
     K_PLUS        +       plus sign
     K_COMMA       ,       comma
     K_MINUS       -       minus sign
     K_PERIOD      .       period
     K_SLASH       /       forward slash
     .....

     K_SEMICOLON   ;       semicolon
     K_LESS        <       less-than sign
     K_EQUALS      =       equals sign
     K_GREATER     >       greater-than sign
     K_QUESTION    ?       question mark

"""

Cheers.


Ian Mallett wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This should be a pretty simple question.
>
> I have a 3D multiplayer game where there is a chat box for 
> communication, and I am at the part where the message is entered.  
> Here is my relevant code so far:
>
>
> key = pygame.key.get_pressed()
> ...
> for event in pygame.event.get():
>     ...
>     if event.type == KEYDOWN:
>         ...
>         elif event.key == K_BACKSPACE and TypingMessage:
>             Message = Message[:-1]
>         elif TypingMessage:
>             name = pygame.key.name <http://pygame.key.name>(event.key)
>             if len(name) == 1:
>                 if key[K_LSHIFT] or key[K_RSHIFT]:
>                     name = name.upper()
>                 if key[K_CAPSLOCK]:
>                     name = name.swapcase()
>                 Message += name
>
>
> Unfortunately, this cannot do cases where the uppercase character is 
> completely different from the lowercase character (for example, "?" 
> and "/").  This is exactly the problem.
>
> I looked into the documentation, but I wasn't able to make out how 
> this could be fixed as there were no relevant examples.
>
> Thanks,
> Ian