Generic key input

[codart]

Hello everyone, let me show you my case, i'm making a typing game in which player should be able to input keys in range of [a-z]. My problem is i do not find any thing like:

game.input.onKeyDown(keyHandle);

function keyHandle(keyCode) {

    if(keyCode===65) {

        console.log("A");

    }

}

i just dont want to add handle for every key, it's seem to be overkill to me :<
THank you for reading

[codart]

bump! anybody here?

[lewster32]

Keyboard.onDownCallback combined with game.input.keyboard.event.keyCode will do this:

    game.input.keyboard.onDownCallback = function() {        console.log(game.input.keyboard.event.keyCode);       };

[codart]

lewster32, you saved my day. It's really, realy help full

[lewster32]

You're very welcome

 

Just as a reminder, you're not forced to use Phaser-specific methods to capture inputs or indeed do pretty much anything; standard JavaScript ways of doing this will fit into Phase quite comfortably.

[foolmoron]

Keep in mind that in Firefox, you don't get the pressed key with event.keyCode, but with event.which. So if you want portability, you need to do:

var key = event.keyCode || event.which;

Further, if you're trying to get which characters are actually typed by the player, with the right capitalization, then you should use the keypress event instead of the keydown event.  Keypress doesn't fire when non-ASCII keys like Shift or F2 are pressed, only when an actual character is input.  It does fire on enter/return, though (keycode 13).  

 

For example:

//When pressing A, this event logs 'a'//When pressing Shift + A, this event logs 'A'window.addEventListener('keypress', function(event) {  var key = event.keyCode || event.which;  console.log("keypress = " + String.fromCharCode(key));});//When pressing A, this event logs 'A'//When pressing Shift + A, this event logs '' and 'A'window.addEventListener('keydown', function(event) {  var key = event.keyCode || event.which;  console.log("keydown = " + String.fromCharCode(key));});