How to use digital-inputs as key like a real keyboard (Leonardo on OSX) ?

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I want for a flight sim use some buttons at the digital-inputs and the shall act as a real keyboard.
(Instead saw up a real keyboard and use a few keys of it. :wink: )

All the examples are mostly only sending a sequence of chars.
It's working for single commands (like Gear up/down), but not when the key must kept pressed.

Has anybody a working example ?

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I figured out, you need Keyboard.press(), Keyboard.release(), a variable as cache and a litte delay() to avoid bouncing:

int key6 = 0;
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if ( digitalRead(22) == LOW && key6 == 0) {Keyboard.press(KEY_6); key6 = 1; delay(20);}
if ( digitalRead(22) == HIGH && key6 == 1) {Keyboard.release(KEY_6); key6 = 0; }