Simple keyboard handling in PyGame
Seriously, how easy is this? For smooth movement, usually a boolean "move" variable is set on a keydown event, and unset on a keyup. Then while the boolean is true, a game object is moved.
#!/usr/bin/python
import pygame, sys
from pygame.locals import *
# Init screen
pygame.init()
screen=pygame.display.set_mode((200,50))
pygame.display.set_caption('Keyboard input test')
pygame.mouse.set_visible(0)
# Main loop
while 1:
# Process events in event queue
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type==QUIT: sys.exit() # Exits the 'main' function
elif event.type==KEYDOWN and event.key==K_ESCAPE: sys.exit()
elif event.type==KEYDOWN and event.key==K_UP: print "up!"
elif event.type==KEYUP and event.key==K_UP: print "up off!"
elif event.type==KEYDOWN and event.key==K_DOWN: print "down!"
elif event.type==KEYUP and event.key==K_DOWN: print "down off!"
elif event.type==KEYDOWN and event.key==K_LEFT: print "left!"
elif event.type==KEYUP and event.key==K_LEFT: print "left off!"
elif event.type==KEYDOWN and event.key==K_RIGHT: print "right!"
elif event.type==KEYUP and event.key==K_RIGHT: print "right up!"
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