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====== ugBASIC User Manual ======

===== KEY PRESSED  =====

===== SYNTAX =====
     = KEY PRESSED(keycode)

==== PURPOSE ====


The ''KEY PRESSED'' command allows you to know the pressing state of a
single specific key, during the "duty cycle" of the keyboard driver.
The reading is deferred: therefore, it is 
possible to detect the pressing of just one key at a time but there is 
no possibility that the pressing of the key is not detected.

The parameter of this function is the so-called "keycode". Each 
key on the target computer's keyboard is encoded by a value, which 
is specific to the hardware being considered. It should not be 
confused with the ASCII code, which is a representation shared between 
the various targets.

All the keys on the keyboard have been encoded by a specific 
constant, which is part of the dictionary of this language.



==== EXAMPLE ====
    IF KEY PRESSED(KEY A) THEN
        PRINT "A has been pressed!"
    ENDIF


==== ABBREVIATION ====
   KyPx


==== AVAILABLE ON ====


==== ANY PROBLEM? ====
If you have encountered a problem using this command, if you think there is a bug or the explanation is unclear, please [[https://github.com/spotlessmind1975/ugbasic/issues/new?title=ISSUE ON KEY PRESSED|open an issue]] for this keyword on GitHub. Thank you!===== POWERED BY =====

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