I've been considering using Pico-8 Education Edition to teach kids the cozy world of game-dev in pico8. But one friction I've had is that using a tablet (most kids nowadays have access to one), it's impossible to hit the escape key (I've tried it with a couple of bluetooth keyboards).

Again, it's meant for kids, so I'm not really looking for a roundabout complex solution.

It would be great if this educational tool had an alternative way to hit [esc]. I'm open to any possible alternatives really, but I do think it would open the door to a lot of kids to play with the tool and have fun with it.

Any thoughts on this?

Jose

If you're using an iPad, Command + . emulates the escape key. Not sure if that works in the EDU edition, but worth a shot. If you're using an Android tablet, not sure, I think I've always just used the back button.

ETA: I think you need a Bluetooth keyboard or a keyboard case to use this shortcut, not sure it's doable with the on-screen keyboard, though maybe there's a way to map it using the accessibility settings. But at that point it's the convoluted workaround you didn't want :).

Hi @guerragames

Hopefully I can just add it as an event mapping. Could I ask you to try the faulty escape key on this page, and tell me the result?

// check the "DOM 3" checkbox first

https://unixpapa.com/js/testkey.html

Hey @zep, thanks for looking into it. I think the biggest problem is that the esc key gets captured by the browser/android-os as a home kind of key, it closes the app and gets you back to the home screen.

So yeah, that page doesn't respond to the key in any way and the browser just minimizes.