GETKEYNOW

Get the currently pressed key.

Description

CH = GETKEYNOW returns the currently pressed key in the main MATLAB window. If no key is pressed at that moment CH is empty.

See M-file for examples and a warning (!)
See also my GETKEY on the File Exhange

Acknowledgements

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getkey

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 6.5 (R13)
• Other requirements: Java Windows

[Andreas Hartmann]

Sounds good but does not work for me. In Matlab 7.04 apparently the rootframe is renamed to "com.mathworks.mde.desk.MLMainFrame". I changed that but the get always returns an empty userdata array.

[Mario Ismael]

when I want:
>> getkeynow('init')
??? Error using ==> getkeynow
at 77
Cannot find root Java frame.