Keyboard Control

The default keyboard controller is implemented using the keyboard package. This makes it cross-platform, but the package is not without its quirks; it installs a global listner for your keyboard, meaning it picks up key presses even if its window is not in focus. This can cause issues if the keyboard controller is looping but you switch contexts, perhaps to a browser, to perform a search, and inadverdently begin moving the stage around. Be cautious!

from autogator.api import load_default_configuration
from autogator.controllers import KeyboardControl, KeyloopKeyboardBindings

stage = load_default_configuration().get_stage()

kc = KeyboardControl(stage, KeyloopKeyboardBindings())
kc.loop()

The default KeyboardControl object has functionality for both continuous motion as well as jogged motion. To see the full list of keyboard commands, type "h".