# Capturing keypresses
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/capturing-keypresses/57330
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [July 12, 2004, 1:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/capturing-keypresses/57330 "2004-07-12T13:19:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@uudens](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/uudens)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2004, 1:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/capturing-keypresses/57330/1 "2004-07-12T13:19:02Z")
how to know if one presses a key (with a keycode not from the list) ?
im trying:
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if(Key.isDown(Key.getCode(104)))do\_something();
and it ‘does\_something()’ if any key is pressed.
that’s kinda lame question but thanks anyway 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2004, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/capturing-keypresses/57330/2 "2004-07-12T16:04:44Z")
ummm how about
onClipEvent (keyDown){
//do stuff
}
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2004, 4:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/capturing-keypresses/57330/3 "2004-07-12T16:50:50Z")
but how to specify if which key is down?
btw - i dont need to know how to make a ‘press any key’ option but how to detect a keypress from a key that is not in the list that appears when you write ‘Key.’
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2004, 5:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/capturing-keypresses/57330/4 "2004-07-13T05:28:12Z")
maybe a better question might be which key are you trying to capture? I was under the impression that you wanted to capture any keypress, now I see that you want to capture something like the ESC or ALT key.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2004, 9:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/capturing-keypresses/57330/5 "2004-07-13T09:14:31Z")
i want to capture numpad keys