Return "Key?"

raferguzman · February 17, 2012, 7:58am

Kind folks – can anyone tell me how to detect when the return key has been pressed on the keyboard? I found a few sample codes to detect the backspace (simple enough!) but the return key eludes me.

Thanks for any help!

–R

sim · February 17, 2012, 6:57pm

We should add a constant like RETURN for this, as "
" is very unintuitive. (It’s simply the newline character.)

sanit · February 17, 2012, 7:51pm

How can we check whether the keyboard is hidden by pressing hide keyboard key?
If it is hidden, we can force to show the keyboard by calling showKeyboard().

sim · February 17, 2012, 7:59pm

@sanit I’ll add a feature to determine whether it’s showing.

At the moment you can’t.

sanit · February 17, 2012, 8:07pm

@Simeon Thank you. I think it.might be useful when working with keyboard.

sim · February 17, 2012, 8:07am

function keyboard(key)
    if key == "\
"
        print("Return Pressed")
    end
end

raferguzman · February 17, 2012, 10:19am

Simeon, thanks as always – I’ll give it a try!

bee · February 17, 2012, 9:49pm

@simeon: what if showKeyboard() and hideKeyboard() merged into single keyboard(visible: boolean) function? Visible param is to set the keyboard appearance. If no param supplied, the function returns the current keyboard appearance state.

Hence, the keyboard() event-loop need to be renamed, for example keypressed() or keytouched(). But this will create incompatibility with old code that relies on keyboard() function.