Raw Key-events: Accepting Any Key

General Discussion
1

So, I’ve recently been advised to switch from standard key-events to raw key-events when handling control-mappings.

However, I find myself uncertain of something:

If I use “ButtonThrower.setButtonDownEvent” to catch all keys, and print out the result, what would be the output on an international keyboard?

That is, if someone with a relevant international keyboard were to run the following, and then press, say, “ě”, what would be the output?

from direct.showbase.ShowBase import ShowBase

class Game(ShowBase):
    def __init__(self):
        ShowBase.__init__(self)

        self.accept("escape", base.userExit)

        self.buttonThrower = base.buttonThrowers[0].node()
        self.buttonThrower.setButtonDownEvent("keyInterception")
        self.accept("keyInterception", self.keyInterception)

    def keyInterception(self, key):
        print (key)

app = Game()
app.run()

(I’ve tried setting the OS’s “input source” to various international layouts, but it doesn’t seem to affect the above, or the effect of a standard key-event. And since I’ve had a report of a key not working, that seems to suggest that while the “input source” affects things like ordinary typing, it doesn’t affect the key-events used by Panda.)

2

ě when pressed generates only raw- type event. So nothing will happen, there is nothing to intercept. You will need to use setRawButtonDownEvent. Then you will intercept “3” and it will print 3.

3

And to get the ě if you want to display it, do this:

map = base.win.get_keyboard_map()
label = map.get_mapped_button_label("3")
print(label)
4

Aaah, I’d missed that method! Thank you! :slight_smile:

Yup, that much at least I got! Thank you nevertheless. :slight_smile: