RE: [pygame] Key Presses

["Noah Kantrowitz" <noah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Use the .unicode property on the event.

--Noah

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pygame-users@xxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-pygame-users@xxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Nicholas Dudfield
> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 6:12 AM
> To: pygame-users@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [pygame] Key Presses
> 
> 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