What follows is an extract from a message I have just sent to a
colleague; it concerns
a really large problem:
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"Then when the shift key is held down, all the vowels appear, type your
vowel,
then when you let go, the consonant panel appears again
This behavior will be *very* familiar to everyone..."
That would be perfectly alright (and it appeals to me) if it were not
for a limitation in Livecode and/or Macintosh; that when one presses
the SHIFT key on a Mac keyboard a Livecode stack does not receive a
rawKeyDown signal: this has also been discussed between us
several times.
For instance; one could have a very simple bit of code rather like this:
if shiftkey() is down then
--do something--
else
--do something else--
end if
and it would work without a hitch.
What one CANNOT do is something like this:
on rawKeyDown KEE
if KEE= XXXX then --where 'XXXX' is a number--
---do something----
else
---do something else---
end if
end rawKeyDown
as pressing the SHIFTkey on a Mac keyboard does not generate a
rawKeyDown number
rather like the DELETEkey generates 65288
this has been a "right bu**er" all along.
SO; it is perfectly possible to have a KEY on the keyboard generate a
consonant when the SHIFTkey is NOT down,
and a vowel when the SHIFTkey is down; but one cannot change the display
that the typist sees in front of him on the screen.
[come to think of things, I'm going to post this bit 'up' on the
Use-List on the off-chance that some wise soul has
found a work-around for this old chestnut]
Please don't think I'm so daft I haven't thought about this "one" long
and hard . . . :)
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does anybody have any suggestions as to how one might circumvent this
problem?
sincerely, Richmond.
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