31. Keyboard Events

In This Chapter

Listen and react to the keyboard

Understand how to work with the various keyboard-related events

See some examples that highlight how common keyboard scenarios work

We spend a lot of time in various applications tapping away at our keyboards. In case you are wondering what a keyboard looks like, Figure 31.1 features a sweet one from I think about a hundred years ago:

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FIGURE 31.1 What a keyboard might look like...in a museum probably. (Image Source)

Anyway, our computers (more specifically, the applications that run on them) just know how to deal with our board of plastic depressible keys. You never ...

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