At 21:56 +0100 03/26/2002, Michael von Aichberger wrote:
>"Mit der Funktion keyCode k�nnen Sie feststellen, wann der Benutzer eine
>Pfeil- oder Funktionstaste gedr�ckt hat, was von der Funktion key nicht
>erkannt werden kann."
>
>Which means that the function keyCode is to see if the user has pressed an
>arrow or function key, WHICH ARE NOT RECOGNISED BY THE FUNCTION "KEY".
Well, arrows are recognized by 'the key', to be sure. I wonder if
this is not a mistranslation into German -- keys such as command,
control and so on are *not* normally "seen" by 'the key' (as I recall
-- don't have Director open right now), even if there's a regular
alpha key pressed. So ctrl-s will still return the ASCII value for
's' when you do a charToNum on it, and give you "s" if you put the
key. It would be as though ctrl had not been pressed.
I gather keyCode doesn't behave in exactly the same way.
And of course there's comadDown, controlDown and so on, but they
don't seem to work if it's *just* cmd or ctrl that are pressed --
your code won't do a thing unless there's something else being
pressed there as well!
>Maybe a bug in the translation of the help texts?
Yes, that seems most likely.
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