How Can I get keyboard input in a SpriteKit Game?

Question

I\'m a beginner in SpriteKit programming, and have been trying to figure out how to handle input from the keyboard.

What I\'ve found so far is that you should subcla

Answer 1

Swift (2.0) version of HeyFara's answer. I've just popped "breaks" in where you would make your actual function calls.

    public override func keyDown(theEvent: NSEvent) {
    handleKeyEvent(theEvent, keyDown: true)
}

public override func keyUp(theEvent: NSEvent) {
    handleKeyEvent(theEvent, keyDown: false)
}

public func handleKeyEvent(event:NSEvent, keyDown:Bool){
    if event.modifierFlags.contains(NSEventModifierFlags.NumericPadKeyMask){
        if let theArrow = event.charactersIgnoringModifiers, keyChar = theArrow.unicodeScalars.first?.value{
            switch Int(keyChar){
            case NSUpArrowFunctionKey:
                break
            case NSDownArrowFunctionKey:
                break
            case NSRightArrowFunctionKey:
                break
            case NSLeftArrowFunctionKey:
                break
            default:
                break
            }
        }
    } else {
        if let characters = event.characters{
            for character in characters.characters{
                switch(character){
                case "w":
                    break
                default:
                    print(character)
                }
            }
        }
    }
}