key

Emulate a key press of a single text key on a keyboard.

keyboard.key("", KeyboardKeyEvent.Press)

The Arcade needs a connection to a computer or other host device with a USB cable in order to emulate keyboard actions. This function doesn’t work in the simulator.

The text key character is placed in a string. If the key string contatins more than one character, only the first character is used as the keystroke.

Parameters

key: a string that is one text character of the key press to simulate.
event: the key press event to simulate. These are:
- press: simulate a text key press down and then release up
- down: simulate a text key press down
- up: simulate a text key release up

Example

Emulate pressing the “A” key down for 2 seconds and then releasing it.

keyboard.key("A", KeyboardKeyEvent.Down)
pause(2000)
keyboard.key("A", KeyboardKeyEvent.Up)

key

Parameters

Example

See also