yy-input

basic input support for touch, mouse, and keyboard

rationale

I used this in all my games, so I decided to centralize and share it. This is a very simple class that emits events after a touch, mouse, or keyboard event. The events are tied to an HTMLElement.

installation

npm i yy-input

simple example

const Input = require('yy-input')

this.input = new Input()
this.input.on('down', 
    function down(x, y)
    {
        console.log('You clicked at ' + x + ', ' + y)
    })

live example

https://davidfig.github.io/input/

API

    /**
     * basic input support for touch, mouse, and keyboard
     *
     * @param {object} [options]
     * @param {HTMLElement} [options.div=document] object to attach listener to
     * @param {boolean} [options.noPointers] turns off mouse/touch/pen listeners
     * @param {boolean} [options.noKeyboard] turns off key listener
     * @param {boolean} [options.chromeDebug] ignore chrome debug keys, and force page reload with ctrl/cmd+r
     * @param {number} [options.threshold=5] maximum number of pixels to move while mouse/touch downbefore cancelling 'click'
     * @param {boolean} [options.preventDefault] call on handle, otherwise let client handle
     *
     * @event down(x, y, { input, event, id }) emits when touch or mouse is first down
     * @event up(x, y, { input, event, id }) emits when touch or mouse is up or cancelled
     * @event move(x, y, { input, event, id }) emits when touch or mouse moves (even if mouse is still up)
     * @event click(x, y, { input, event, id }) emits when "click" for touch or mouse
     * @event wheel(dx, dy, dz, { event, id, x, y }) emits when "wheel" scroll for mouse
     *
     * @event keydown(keyCode:number, {shift:boolean, meta:boolean, ctrl: boolean}, { event, input }) emits when key is pressed
     * @event keyup(keyCode:number, {shift:boolean, meta:boolean, ctrl: boolean}, { event, input }) emits when key is released
     */
    constructor(options)

    /**
     * remove all listeners
     */
    destroy()

    /**
     * turns on pointer listeners (on by default); can be used after removePointers()
     */
    addPointers()

    /**
     * remove pointers listener
     */
    removePointers()

    /**
     * turns on keyboard listener (off by default); can be used after removeKeyboard()
     */
    addKeyboard()

    /**
     * removes keyboard listener
     */
    removeKeyboard()

License

MIT License
(c) 2017 YOPEY YOPEY LLC by David Figatner