At 05:34 2/10/2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hello List! > >I am working on an application that runs as a scripting Xtra (= MIAW) and >helps editing another Director movie on the stage. > >The MIAW has to process keydown events but when the application is running >as an Xtra, the keydown events are not always intercepted by the primary >event handler. Sometimes they are, sometimes the primary event handler >ALTHOUGH BEING EXECUTED just doesn't get the events. Moreover I am using >stopEvent commands to prevent the RETURN key from spoiling the entries in a >one line editable text field. They also do not work reliably. Sometimes they >do, sometimes they do not. And I cannot see any system in this behavior. > >Up to now I thought that regardless of any other code in any other script, >the keydown event should always be intercepted by the keydownscript, >shouldn't it? I haven't tried to trap keyDown events in MIAW helpers, but I do know that the Director authoring environment will always trap certain keys before any script does. Escape comes to mind here. Still, any pattern as to whether the window has the focus? -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
