Hey. I searched and searched but I couldn’t find definitive answer to the question, whether querying hardware keyboard state is possible in Pythonista when using scene. I know it can be done with UIKit but this doesn’t fit my needs. I love my iPad and I’d like to use it for some quick prototypes for my games but I just prefer keyboard input over touch.
Any support would be welcome (events or just queries for keys)!
@KiloPasztetowej, I assume that by UIKit support you are referring to the ui.View.get_key_commands and key_command(sender) methods.
Since scene always runs in a
UI view, you can create a custom ui.View that utilizes the above methods, and then use that as your scene’s view.
Something like this – end with a two-finger swipe down:
import ui
import scene
class MyKbHandler(ui.View):
def __init__(self, my_scene, **kwargs):
super().__init__(**kwargs)
sceneview = scene.SceneView(
frame=self.bounds, flex='WH',
)
sceneview.scene = self.scene = my_scene
self.add_subview(sceneview)
def get_key_commands(self):
return [
# Custom commands
{ 'input': 'A' }
]
def key_command(self, sender):
# Process commands, e.g.:
if sender['input'] == 'A':
self.scene.accelerate()
class MyScene(scene.Scene):
def setup(self):
self.ship = scene.SpriteNode('spc:PlayerShip1Orange')
self.ship.position = self.size / 2
self.add_child(self.ship)
def accelerate(self):
x, y = self.ship.position
self.ship.position = (x, y + 20)
root = MyKbHandler(my_scene=MyScene())
root.present('fullscreen', hide_title_bar=True)
Great! Works like a charm and that’s exactly what I need. Thank you very much 🙂
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