Key Press

Fires a pulse while a keyboard key is pressed — the bridge from your keyboard into the graph.

Output: event — 1 while the key is held (a short pulse per press), 0 otherwise

Inputs

None.

Parameters

Parameter	Default	Meaning
key	KeyR	the key to watch — click the button on the card and press a key to capture it
pulse	0.3 s	how long a single press keeps the output at 1

The key is stored as a physical key code (KeyR, Digit1, Space…), so it works the same across keyboard layouts and with Shift held. Presses are ignored while you are typing in a text field.

Each press travels as one tiny replicated message with a shared timestamp — every peer's graph computes the same pulse, and anyone's key press fires the node. Holding the key re-pulses it, so the output stays at 1 for as long as the key is down.

Practical example

Press R to spin an object:

1. Add a Key Press (capture KeyR), a Spin and an Object Selector picking the target.
2. Wire Key Press → Spin's speed input, and Spin → Object Selector.
3. Hold R: the object spins while the key is down and stops when released.

Tip

Inside an object flow you can skip the Object Selector — a Key Press wired into a Spin's speed drives the flow's owner directly.