Re: [pygame] key press question

[Robert Flemming <flemming@spiralout.net>]

Okay this was MUCH easier than I thought.  All I was really trying to create
was a shift or meta key so once I thought about it, it was very simple.  In my
main loop I use the event queue and the first tests I do are for KEYDOWN and
KEYUP along with my metakey and set a flag accordingly.  From then on all
further KEYDOWN tests also test to see if the metakey flag is set.  Perhaps my
initial question made it sound like I was trying to do a whole lot more.  Here
is stripped down example:

metakey = 0

  while 1:
	event = pygame.event.wait()

	if event.type == KEYDOWN and event.key == K_LALT:
		metakey = 1
	elif event.type == KEYUP and event.key == K_LALT:
		metakey = 0
	elif event.type == KEYDOWN and event.key == K_DOWN and metakey:
		print "Meta Down"
	elif event.type == KEYDOWN and event.key == K_DOWN and not metakey:
		print "Down"

Of course after the fact it seems like a stupid question.  Thanks for your
help.  I'd expect a few more lame questions from me in the future. :)

Robert
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