Event-driven / callback programming of mouse or keyboard

Is there any way to do event-driven programming, with callbacks for mouse or keyboard events? I would rather not use the polling style shown in example on the web site.

e.g. 

onKey('a', processKeyA)

onMouseDown(processMouseDown)

onMouseDownOn(myCube, processMouseDownOnObject)

Thanks!
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