On 30/11/12 15:18, Richmond wrote:
Now the ALT-KEY yields a "magic number" (keyDown) number
on Windows and Linux, and that's fine and dandy, but, as has been
pointed out several times, both
by myself and others, that doesn't happen on a Mac and Livecode seems
unable to work out when
the ALT-KEY is down . . .
. . . just wondering whether, despite that, the ALT-KEY does actually
have a unicode number
on a Mac?
The soup thickens . . .
So: Macintosh does NOT return a rawKeyDown code for modifier keys,
BUT
Macintosh does show that a modifier key is pressed when a button (or
other object) gets
a mouseDown or a mouseUp:
on mouseUp
if the altKey is down then
do something
end if
end mouseUp
keysDown doesn't give any joy with modifier keys on Macintosh.
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and I've written the substance of this before:
as modifier keys modify keyboard input on Macintosh computers (just as
they do on
non-Mac computers running other operating systems) the OS, obviously,
does detect
those keyDowns . . .
So, why is Livecode able to detect modifier rawKeyDowns on Windows and
Linux,
but is quite unable to detect modifier rawKeyDowns on Macintosh?
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