📦 JEInput

Technical reference for the JEInput class of JarEngine.

Inherit from •>JEInternBaseClass<•📎

🔹 Overview

JEInput is responsible for handling keyboard and mouse inputs inside JarEngine.

Provides:

  • Keyboard state checking.
  • Mouse button state checking.
  • Mouse position retrieval.
  • Unified input checking through callable interface.

Central input management class used to retrieve real-time user interactions. It acts as an abstraction layer over PyGame input handling, allowing JarEngine systems and games to query inputs without directly interacting with PyGame events.

🔹 Location

JarEngine
│
├── events
│     └── JEInput
│
└── ...

🔹 Data

No public data nor property

🔹 API

Function Arguments Returns Description
update     Updates keyboard and mouse input states.
is_key_down key: JEKeyCode bool Checks whether a keyboard key is currently pressed.
is_mouse_down button: JEMouseCode bool Checks whether a mouse button is currently pressed.
mouse_pos   JEVector2D Gets the current mouse position.
__call__ code: JEKeyCode \| JEMouseCode bool Automatically checks whether the given keyboard key or mouse button is pressed.

🔹 Usage

from jarengine import Games
from jarengine import JEKey_Space, JEMse_Left

input_manager = Games.JEInput()

input_manager.update()

if input_manager(JEKey_Space):
    print("Space key pressed")

if input_manager.is_mouse_down(JEMse_Left):
    print("Left mouse button pressed")

mouse_position = input_manager.mouse_pos()
print(f"Mouse position: {mouse_position}")