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Handling Keyboard Listener in Angular
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import { Component, HostListener } from '@angular/core'; | |
@Component({ | |
selector: 'app-keyboard-listener', | |
templateUrl: './keyboard-listener.component.html', | |
styleUrls: ['./keyboard-listener.component.css'] | |
}) | |
export class KeyboardListenerComponent { | |
// Listener just for one key | |
@HostListener('keydown.esc', ['$event']) | |
onEsc(event: KeyboardEvent) { | |
// some logic here | |
} | |
// handler of the keyup event | |
@HostListener('document:keyup', ['$event']) | |
onKeyUp(event: KeyboardEvent): void { | |
let keysToIgnore: string[] = ['PrintScreen', 'Escape', 'cControl', 'NumLock', 'PageUp', 'PageDown', 'End', | |
'Home', 'Delete', 'Insert', 'ContextMenu', 'Control', 'ControlAltGraph', 'Alt', 'Meta', 'Shift', 'CapsLock', | |
'TabTab', 'ArrowRight', 'ArrowLeft', 'ArrowDown', 'ArrowUp', 'Pause', 'ScrollLock', 'Dead', '', | |
'F1', 'F2', 'F3', 'F4', 'F5', 'F6', 'F7', 'F8', 'F9', 'F10', 'F11', 'F12']; | |
if(this.indexOfInArray(event.key, keysToIgnore) === -1) { // if it's not a special key | |
if(event.key === 'Enter') { | |
// some logic here | |
} else { | |
// some logic here | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
} |
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