lovr-keyboard

A keyboard module for LÖVR.

Note: As of LÖVR v0.14.0, there are builtin keyboard events: lovr.keypressed, lovr.keyreleased, and lovr.textinput. This library still provides the isDown, wasPressed, and wasReleased functions which can be helpful, but lovr-keyboard is no longer required to get keyboard support.

Usage

Copy lovr-keyboard.lua to your project and require it. I like to put it on the lovr global like this:

lovr.keyboard = require 'lovr-keyboard'

function lovr.update(dt)
  print(lovr.keyboard.isDown('space'))
end

lovr-keyboard can only run on systems where LÖVR uses both LuaJIT and GLFW. If your project needs to be compatible with Android or WebVR, you can optionally include lovr-keyboard with:

if type(jit) == 'table' and lovr.getOS() ~= 'Android' and lovr.getOS() ~= 'Web' then
	lovr.keyboard = require 'lovr-keyboard'
end

API

• keyboard.isDown(key, ...) Returns whether any of the specified keys are held down. The names of all the supported keys can be found here.
• lovr.keypressed(key) Called when a key is pressed.
• lovr.keyreleased(key) Called when a key is released.

License

MIT