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Only released in EOL distros:   hydro indigo jade

Overview

This package allows you to receive keyboard events (key-up, key-down), similar to how the joy node works.

Since it uses SDL to capture keyboard events, a separate window will be opened when the node starts, and this is where all keyboard input will be received. In other words, the node will receive key-presses only when this window is focused.

keyboard

Listens to key-presses and publishes them as messages

Published Topics

keydown (keyboard/Key)

• key-down events are published in this topic

keyup (keyboard/Key)

• key-up events are published in this topic

Parameters

~allow_repeat (bool, default: false)

• Enables or disables the keyboard repeat rate (see SDL documentation).

~repeat_delay (int, default: SDL_DEFAULT_REPEAT_DELAY)

• How long the key must be pressed before it begins repeating.

~repeat_interval (int, default: SDL_DEFAULT_REPEAT_INTERVAL)

• Key replay speed.