There is a Keyboard package which might work for you -> 'This library lets you listen to global keyboard events'
http://package.elm-lang.org/packages/elm-lang/keyboard/1.0.1/Keyboard although I seem to remember that I did have problems with event propagation when I was playing with it (in that I couldn't stop them from bubbling up the DOM). On Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 7:23:31 AM UTC, Lyle Kopnicky wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I'm having trouble detecting keypresses in Elm 0.18. The only examples I > can find are old ones that use Signals. There are no examples in the Elm > Architecture Tutorial. The Html.Events module documentation shows a piece > of the puzzle with the example for onKeyUp. > > Heres a gist with the code: > https://gist.github.com/anonymous/5f54c2b2c8fb42a31d4ae37058a72e2a > > You can ignore the KaTeX import - that's not used at the moment. > > It compiles and runs, but the circle just sits there. I have know way of > knowing if it's detecting my keypresses. I thought that by putting the > event handler on the outer div, it would intercept keypresses. I didn't > have any way of adding handler to the svg element. > > BTW I also tried 'keyup' instead of 'keypress', and I tried making it > generate the MoveRight message for any key, just to make sure it wasn't bad > key code problem. > > Do I need to somehow attach the keypress handler to the document instead? > Perhaps I need to use a subscription? I'm not finding any guidance in the > docs. Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Lyle > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
