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>SDL_GetKeyState</H1
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>SDL_GetKeyState&nbsp;--&nbsp;Get a snapshot of the current keyboard state</DIV
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>#include "SDL.h"</PRE
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>Uint8 *<B
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>(int *numkeys);</CODE
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>Gets a snapshot of the current keyboard state. The current state is return as a pointer to an array, the size of this array is stored in <TT
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> symbols. A value of 1 means the key is pressed and a value of 0 means its not. The pointer returned is a pointer to an internal SDL array and should not be freed by the caller.</P
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if ( keystate[SDLK_RETURN] ) printf("Return Key Pressed.\n");</PRE
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author	Ryan C. Gordon <icculus@icculus.org>
date	Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:48:16 +0000
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