[Gambas-user] Knowing keyboard state without being in a key event

[Rob]

On Thursday 08 July 2004 09:23, DASNOIS Benjamin wrote:
> I didn't see anything to do this but I hope there's a way to:
> I would like to know the state of the keyboard anywhere in the
> code (read: without being in a keyboard event) I need to know
> if some keys are pressed when being in a loop. I hope someone
> can help me.

See my space game example from a few weeks ago (the animation is 
too slow but the keyboard stuff works fine.)  Basically you need 
to declare a class-level variable reflecting key state, and set 
that in each KeyPress or KeyRelease event handler.

Rob