Pygame only detects mouse events, does not detect KEYDOWN events

Question

I have written the following simple program which should print out all events detected by pygame.event.get().

import pygame, sys
from pygame.loc         


        

Answer 1

For anyone still struggling with this, the issue is documented here on git and is fixed. https://github.com/pygame/pygame/issues/203

Just uninstall pygame from your venv, then install below version.

pip install -U https://github.com/pygame/pygame/archive/master.zip

Just tried this and can finally use key events in pygame.

Answer 2

If you're working in a virtualenv, don't use the virtualenv command.

Use python3 -m venv.

Then install pygame (e.g. pip3 install hg+http://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame).

See this thread for more details on this issue.

Answer 3

Firstly i doubt you are but pygame only registers inputs when your focused on the pygame screen so there's that. I don't have a direct answer to your question so sorry but i do have my solution or work around to it. Because i dislike the normal event system i use pygame.key.get_pressed() (https://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/key.html) just because i think it looks better and more readable. This is probably just a bad habit of mine though sooo.....