Keypress

Definitions

1. The depression of an input key; a keystroke.
2. The buffered electrical signal resulting from such an event, sometimes distinguished from the release.

Equivalents

Examples

“But Allegro does allow⟳ you to read⟳ keypresses. Every event that's sent to an Allegro game comes in via a queue. That's just a list of data that describes which keys have⟳ been pressed, where the mouse is, and so on.”

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