Handling Keyboard events in Dart Language
First of all you need to add a listener:
window.on.keyDown.add(myKeyDownEvent);
Let for example write a method that handles arrows key press:
void myKeyDownEvent(Event event){
if(event is KeyboardEvent){
KeyboardEvent kevent = event as KeyboardEvent;
query("#text").text = kevent.keyIdentifier;
switch(kevent.keyIdentifier){
case "Up":
query("#text").text = "Up Pressed";
sprites.forEach((s) => s.usermove(0,10));
break;
case "Down":
query("#text").text = "Down Pressed";
sprites.forEach((s) => s.usermove(0,-10));
break;
case "Left":
break;
case "Right":
break;
case "U+0020":
query("#text").text = "Space pressed";
break;
}
}
Where text is a text element in your html code.
As you can see first of all we check if the event is a KeyboardEvent, if yes we can safely cast it to that type in order to have access to all available methods to read informations about the key just pressed.
KeyIdentifier is a String representation of the key (U+0020 is the space bar).
Written by Ivan
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