Keyboard.isKeyDown() returning nil!

[ackley14 0]

Keyboard.isKeyDown(keyboard.keys.space) and other variants are always returning nil and i'm not sure why!

 

here's my code

keyboard = require("keyboard")
while true do
   print(keyboard.isKeyDown(keyboard.keys.space))
end

this returns nil over and over. no amount of button pressing changes the output for whatever reason

any ideas why?

[Gorzoid 10]

This may be because you are not sleeping, if you constantly check without yielding then it can't check keys pressed, add an os.sleep call before or after the print

[Molinko 43]

Key presses are events. You need to yield (i.e event.pull ) to catch them. Try this..

require('event').pull('key')
print( require('keyboard').isKeyDown( 0x39 ) )