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love.keyboard.isDown
Checks whether a certain key is down. Not to be confused with love.keypressed or love.keyreleased.
Function
Synopsis
down = love.keyboard.isDown( key )
Arguments
KeyConstant key
- The key to check.
Returns
boolean down
- True if the key is down, false if not.
Function
Available since LÖVE 0.7.2 |
This variant is not supported in earlier versions. |
Synopsis
anyDown = love.keyboard.isDown( key1, key2, key3, ... )
Arguments
KeyConstant keyN
- A key to check.
Returns
boolean anyDown
- True if any supplied key is down, false if not.
Examples
Increase a value while a key is held down
val = 0 -- establish a variable for later use
function love.update(dt)
if love.keyboard.isDown("up") then
val = val + dt -- we will increase the variable by 1 for every second the key is held down
end
end
function love.update(dt)
if love.keyboard.isDown("up") then
val = val + dt -- we will increase the variable by 1 for every second the key is held down
end
end
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