Re: [pygame] key press question

[Frank Raiser <crashchaos@gmx.net>]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 07:20:31PM -0800, Robert Flemming wrote:
> Okay this was MUCH easier than I thought.  

If I got your idea right it can be even easier

> 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
[..]

Another solution would simply be:

while 1:
    event = pygame.event.wait()
    if event.type == KEYDOWN:
        if pygame.key.get_mods() & KMOD_LALT: print "meta down"
        else: print "just down"

I don't know about the interals of pygame very well.. maybe Pete can
lighten it up a little.. how does key.get_mods work? Is there any
processing necessary? Then it would be faster to save a flag like Robert
did. But iirc the state of the mod-keys gets updated anyways and so
the get_mods just returns a ready-to-go value ?

-- 
Raiser, Frank aka CrashChaos
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