love.keyboard.isDown

Checks whether a certain key is down. Not to be confused with love.keypressed or love.keyreleased.

Function

Synopsis

down = love.keyboard.isDown( key[, key2, key3, ...] )

Arguments

KeyConstant key
The key to check.
Available since LÖVE 0.7.2
KeyConstant keyN
A key to check

Returns

boolean down
True if the any supplied key is down, false if not.

Examples

Increase a value while a key is held down

val = 0   -- establish a variable for later use
function love.update(dt)
	if love.keyboard.isDown("up") then
		val = val + dt   -- we will increase the variable by 1 for every second the key is held down
	end	
end

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