love.keyboard.isDown

Checks whether a certain key is down.

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

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