Button keydown-holding functions differently on device vs. web

[Sheepy3]

when you press a button once on the physical console, the console registers that as a single input. On the web, however, holding down a button causes multiple inputs. This should be corrected so that inputs are consistent between the web and spade.

[grymmy]

@leomcelroy please verify exactly what we want to do here to make things consistent - my $0.02 is that it may be the case that users have tested more on the website, and thus perhaps the behavior there is what should be retained...?

[leomcelroy]

The intended behavior is for button presses to trigger once, not repeatedly.

[Supercolbat]

ROOM makes use of holding down keys on web to move the player, so changing this behavior would make the game unplayable. As a compromise, perhaps there could be an API for changing settings?

setSettings({
  keydownRepeat: true // default: false
});

// or expose a `sprig` or `sprigSettings` next to `api`

sprig.keydownRepeat = true;

Technical note: KeyboardEvent.repeat is not reliable for determining repeated keydown events. This is confirmed by MDN docs.

[leomcelroy]

Wow that game is amazing.

[recursiveforte]

@DevIos01 are you still interested in working on this?

[DevIos01]

Hey @recursiveforte feel free to take it if you want, currently stuck on hardware stuff so you can take over this issue :)