angular-keydown

Angular service for keydown detection

Sometimes, it could be useful to detect a pressed key during a click or another event. Let's say you have a validation button. It would rock if it pops up a confirmation message when you click on it, but not if you hold the shift key, right ?

Angular-keydown makes it really easy!

Demos & usage

http://msieurtoph.github.io/angular-keydown

Installation

npm i angular-keydown --save

Usage

Please, visit http://msieurtoph.github.io/angular-keydown for live examples.

angular.module('', ['msieurtoph.ngKeydown'])
 
.directive('myTest', ['Keydown', function(Keydown){
    return {
        restrict: 'A',
        link: function(scope){
            scope.click = function(){
                if (Keydown.shift){
                    scope.message = 'Shift key has been pressed when clicking!';
                } else {
                    scope.message = 'Shift key nas not been pressed when clicking!';
                }
            };
        }
    }]);
});

<button my-test ng-click="click()">Hold shift key and click me</button>
<pre ng-bind="message"></pre>
 

The service lets you know whether the following keys are pressed :

• shift, ctrl, alt
• up, down, right, left arrows
• pgUp, pgDown
• space, escape, enter, tab

For other keys you can look to Keydown.others[_theKeyCode_] For instance, Keydown.others[65] will equal true if the a key is down.

Keydown.pressed gives you the list of pressed keys. For instance, if a, b and c keys are down, Keydown.pressed will equal [65, 66, 67]