Keypress
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The depression of an input key; a keystroke.
"But Allegro does allow you to read keypresses. Every event that's sent to an Allegro game comes in via a queue. That's just a list of data that describes which keys have been pressed, where the mouse is, and so on."
- 2 The buffered electrical signal resulting from such an event, sometimes distinguished from the release.
Example
More examples"But Allegro does allow you to read keypresses. Every event that's sent to an Allegro game comes in via a queue. That's just a list of data that describes which keys have been pressed, where the mouse is, and so on."
Etymology
From key + press.
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