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Asori12
Asori12

Reputation: 133

Press and hold for pygame

I'm using pygame and pyautogui to move the mouse around the screen in python 2.7. My code looks like:

    import pyautogui
    import pygame
    pygame.init()
    pygame.display.set_mode()
    loop = True
    while loop:

         for event in pygame.event.get():
                if event.type == pygame.quit:
                    pygame.quit()
                if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
                    if event.key == pygame.K_a:
                        pyautogui.moveRel(-50,0)

My code moves the mouse to the left when I press "a" but I have to repeatedly press the button when I want to move the mouse across the screen. Is there a way to be able to press and hold a and move the mouse across the screen? I've looked at other tutorials on this topic but they seem very project specific.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1769

Answers (1)

Martin
Martin

Reputation: 6032

Basically, what you want to do is set a variable indicating whether the key is down on keydown and update it once key is up.

Here, I updated your code to do just that as it might be easier to understand.

import pyautogui
import pygame
loop = True

a_key_down = False                                    # Added variable
while loop:

     for event in pygame.event.get():
            if event.type == pygame.quit:
                pygame.quit()
            if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
                if event.key == pygame.K_a:
                    a_key_down = True                 # Replaced keydown code with this
            if event.type == pygame.KEYUP:            # Added keyup
                if event.key == pygame.K_a:
                    a_key_down = False                
    if a_key_down:                                    # Added to check if key is down
         pyautogui.moveRel(-50,0)

Upvotes: 2

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