JavaScript Keyboard events and comparison

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I wrote a function which should check if one particular button is being pressed. However, it seems to always return false. This is the function:

function keyPressed(ev) {
    var r = false;
    document.onkeypress = function(e) {
        if (ev == e.which || ev == e.keyCode) {
            r = true;
        }
    }
    return r;
}

And this is how you'd call it:

if (keyPressed(119)) {
    // do something
}

Checking with alert, they seem to be the same number when I press "W", but the function just always returns false. Are they different type?

asked 24 secs ago

Slurppa

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JavaScript Keyboard events and comparison