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Created: cyke64 (24 Mar 2007)
Last edited: hamishwillee (08 May 2013)

Method 1

Nokia offers a keyboard class in the code examples but often it's too complex to handle. Here's a more convenient and easy way to handle keypress. Add this class Keyboard.

from key_codes import *
 
class Keyboard(object):
def __init__(self):
self.state = {} # is this key pressing ?
self.buffer= {} # is it waiting to be processed ?
def handle_event(self, event): # for event_callback
code = event['scancode']
if event['type'] == EEventKeyDown:
self.buffer[code]= 1 # put into queue
self.state[code] = 1
elif event['type'] == EEventKeyUp:
self.state[code] = 0
def pressing(self, code): # just check
return self.state.get(code,0)
def pressed(self, code): # check and process the event
if self.buffer.get(code,0):
self.buffer[code] = 0 # take out of queue
return 1
return 0

Now you can check the keyboard status with key.pressing and key.pressed:


from appuifw import *
 
key = Keyboard()
app.body = canvas = Canvas(event_callback=key.handle_event)
 
print key.state # just pressed up arrow {17: 0}
print key.buffer # {17: 1}
print key.pressing(EScancodeUpArrow) # it's not pressing = 0
print key.pressed(EScancodeUpArrow) # yes, it's pressed = 1
print key.pressed(EScancodeUpArrow) # no, you've just processed it = 0

Remarks : Don't put it in another module because it doesn't work ! Put it directly in your main code !


Method 2

An alternate, but very similar method is to define the class like this:

from key_codes import *
 
class Keyboard(object):
def __init__(self,onevent=lambda:None):
self._keyboard_state={}
self._downs={}
self._onevent=onevent
def handle_event(self,event):
if event['type']==appuifw.EEventKeyDown:
code=event['scancode']
if not self.is_down(code):
self._downs[code]=self._downs.get(code,0)+1
self._keyboard_state[code]=1
elif event['type']==appuifw.EEventKeyUp:
self._keyboard_state[event['scancode']]=0
self._onevent()
def is_down(self,scancode):
return self._keyboard_state.get(scancode,0)
def pressed(self,scancode):
if self._downs.get(scancode,0):
self._downs[scancode]-=1
return True
return False
keyboard=Keyboard()

and to create a loop that checks for keypresses:

import e32, appuifw
 
canvas=appuifw.Canvas(event_callback=keyboard.handle_event, redraw_callback=None)
appuifw.app.body=canvas
 
running=1
while(running==1):
if(keyboard.pressed(EScancodeRightArrow)): #If the specified key is pressed
print "Right arrow key was pressed"
if(keyboard.pressed(EScancodeRightSoftkey)):
running=0 #Break the loop
e32.ao_yield()

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