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I'm trying to get my controller to watch for a combination of keys. For argument's sake, let's say: up up down down left right left right b a. How can I get angular to look out for these regardless of where in the page the user currently is?
This is all untested, but you could use ng-keypress
To call a function something like:
Outside an input field, I don't think ng-keypress works, but the keypress from angular-ui might.
I'm sure there should be an array diff kinda function too, but the specific call evades me right now.