exkeys(3alleg4)

✨ exkeys ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the exkeys page from the Allegro manual (that's exkeys(3alleg4) if you're being official about it) and it's literally a whole tour of keyboard input. no cap. 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

exkeys — the way to get input from the keyboard in different ways. Allegro game programming library. keyboard lore, fr fr. ⌨️✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <allegro.h>

Example exkeys

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this program is a demo of how to access the keyboard, and it walks you through it step by step like a little tutorial arc. it's giving syllabus energy. 📚

• Part one shows you the basic use of readkey(). baby's first keypress. iconic.
• Part two shows how to extract the ASCII value. the actual letter, not just "something happened".
• Next come the scan codes. different vibe, same keyboard.
• Test four detects modifier keys like alt or shift. 👑 the shift key finally gets its moment.
• Test five requires some focus to be passed. (yes, genuinely — that's what it says, so bring your focus.)
• Final step shows how to use the global key array to read simultaneous key presses. mashing several keys at once? supported. main character energy. 💅
• Last method for detecting key presses is keyboard callbacks. this one gets demonstrated by installing a keyboard callback, which marks all pressed keys by drawing to a grid. grid go brrr. 🔥

no skipping steps, bestie, they all eat. 🍓

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

everything else you might want to peek at, all the siblings:

• END_OF_FUNCTION(3alleg4)
• END_OF_MAIN(3alleg4)
• LOCK_FUNCTION(3alleg4)
• SCREEN_H(3alleg4)
• SCREEN_W(3alleg4)
• acquire_screen(3alleg4)
• allegro_error(3alleg4)
• allegro_init(3alleg4)
• allegro_message(3alleg4)
• blit(3alleg4)
• clear_keybuf(3alleg4)
• clear_to_color(3alleg4)
• desktop_palette(3alleg4)
• font(3alleg4)
• install_keyboard(3alleg4)
• install_timer(3alleg4)
• key(3alleg4)
• key_shifts(3alleg4)
• keyboard_lowlevel_callback(3alleg4)
• keypressed(3alleg4)
• makecol(3alleg4)
• readkey(3alleg4)
• rectfill(3alleg4)
• release_screen(3alleg4)
• rest(3alleg4)
• scancode_to_name(3alleg4)
• screen(3alleg4)
• set_gfx_mode(3alleg4)
• set_palette(3alleg4)
• textout_ex(3alleg4)
• textprintf_centre_ex(3alleg4)
• textprintf_ex(3alleg4)
• ureadkey(3alleg4)
• usprintf(3alleg4)
• ustrzncpy(3alleg4)

that's the whole page, you ate it up. this came from the Allegro manual, version 4.4.3, and the date on the original footer was just chillin' there next to exkeys(3alleg4). mwah. 💖🎀🦋