How To Handle Keyboard Events In Python Pyglet

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pyglet has support for low-level keyboard input suitable for games as well as locale- and device-independent Unicode text entry.

Keyboard input requires a window which has focus. The operating system usually decides which application window has keyboard focus. Typically this window appears above all others and may be decorated differently, though this is platform-specific (for example, Unix window managers sometimes couple keyboard focus with the mouse pointer).

You can request keyboard focus for a window with the activate() method, but you should not rely on this – it may simply provide a visual cue to the user indicating that the window requires user input, without actually getting focus.

Windows created with the WINDOW_STYLE_BORDERLESS or WINDOW_STYLE_TOOL style cannot receive keyboard focus.

It is not possible to use pyglet’s keyboard or text events without a window; consider using Python built-in functions such as input instead.

There are two Keyboard Events that you can use in Python Pyglet

def on_key_press(symbol, modifiers):
    pass
def on_key_release(symbol, modifiers):
    pass

def on_key_press(symbol, modifiers):

pass

def on_key_release(symbol, modifiers):

pass

And also there are different and directional keys in Pyglet.

key.ENTER or key.RETURN
key.SPACE
key.BACKSPACE
key.DELETE
key.MINUS
key.EQUAL
key.BACKSLASH
key.LEFT
key.RIGHT
key.UP
key.DOWN
key.HOME
key.END
key.PAGEUP
key.PAGEDOWN
key.F1
key.F2

key.ENTER or key.RETURN

key.SPACE

key.BACKSPACE

key.DELETE

key.MINUS

key.EQUAL

key.BACKSLASH

key.LEFT

key.RIGHT

key.UP

key.DOWN

key.HOME

key.END

key.PAGEUP

key.PAGEDOWN

key.F1

key.F2

So this is the complete code for this article

import pyglet
from pyglet.window import key


window = pyglet.window.Window()



@window.event
def on_key_press(symbol, modifiers):
    if symbol == key.A:
        print("A Key Was Pressed")

    elif symbol == key.B:
        print("B Key Was Pressed")

    elif symbol == key.ENTER:
        print("Enter Key Was Pressed")



@window.event
def on_draw():
    window.clear()



pyglet.app.run()

import pyglet

from pyglet.window import key

window = pyglet.window.Window()

@window.event

def on_key_press(symbol, modifiers):

if symbol == key.A:

print("A Key Was Pressed")

elif symbol == key.B:

print("B Key Was Pressed")

elif symbol == key.ENTER:

print("Enter Key Was Pressed")

@window.event

def on_draw():

window.clear()

pyglet.app.run()

So these line of codes are for our key press, so if a user press A key i want to show that A key was pressed and the same action for B and Enter Keys.

@window.event
def on_key_press(symbol, modifiers):
    if symbol == key.A:
        print("A Key Was Pressed")

    elif symbol == key.B:
        print("B Key Was Pressed")

    elif symbol == key.ENTER:
        print("Enter Key Was Pressed")

@window.event

def on_key_press(symbol, modifiers):

if symbol == key.A:

print("A Key Was Pressed")

elif symbol == key.B:

print("B Key Was Pressed")

elif symbol == key.ENTER:

print("Enter Key Was Pressed")

You can run the code and press on the window, you will see the result as expected

How To Handle Keyboard Press Events In Python Pyglet

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