detect keyboard input?

[D-R_aldi]

need some help.
can someone tell me how can we detect input from keyboard in renpy?

I mean, I want it so that when the user click some arrow [K_UP], [K_DOWN], [K_LEFT], [K_RIGHT],
then detect the input,
then do something, like move to the next scenery according with the key pressed.

[PyTom]

You generally want a screen, with various key entries.

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screen keynav:
     key "K_UP" action Jump("up")
     key "K_DOWN" action Jump("down")
     # ... etc.

You can then show or call the screen, and it will listen for keys and jump where you want it to.

[D-R_aldi]

Thanks PyTom...
it really helps..

I'm still a noob after all

[PyTom]

I'm still a noob after all

We all were, once, in most things.

[Kinross07]

I imagine this thread is fully dead, I don't know if something fundamental has changed in the last 3 years, but I get the following error:

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I'm sorry, but errors were detected in your script. Please correct the
errors listed below, and try again.


File "game/input.rpy", line 27: u'jump' is not a keyword argument or valid child for the key statement.
    key  'K_RETURN' action jump("complete")
                               ^

Ren'Py Version: Ren'Py 6.99.12.4.2187

As it stands, it exists in this code:

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screen text_input_screen():

    default screenvar = True
    imagemap:
        ground "background.png"
        idle "idle.png"
        hover "hover.png"
        selected_idle "hover.png"

        hotspot (150,140,475,200) action SetScreenVariable("screenvar",True)
        hotspot (625,140,110,100) action [Hide("text_input_screen"),Jump("complete")]
        key  'K_RETURN' action jump("complete")
        if screenvar == True:
            
            input default firstname pos(200,165) changed name_func
            

I'm trying to make it so that rather than having to press an on-screen button, the user can just hit enter/return when they're done. On the off chance anyone sees this, any advice is greatly appreciated. And if you can explain why that's even better. Trying to reduce the amount of blind copying I do.

[Pyr0]

I imagine this thread is fully dead, I don't know if something fundamental has changed in the last 3 years, but I get the following error:

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File "game/input.rpy", line 27: u'jump' is not a keyword argument or valid child for the key statement.
    key  'K_RETURN' action jump("complete")                              					
    						^

You ought to write Jump with a capital J. Simple typing errors are the most common in Ren'py so I suggest you always give a lot of attention to the error message (in this case it straight up tells you 'jump' is not a function that exists) and always double check what you type.

[Kinross07]

This is why it confused me, because when moving to labels and things, lower case jump is perfectly valid, so I didn't realise they were two separate things. Thank you though