On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 Scott Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm wondering if I'm missing something with regard to the ability to test
> the state of keypresses in MC. On Mac systems, a keyUp message is sent when
> a key is pressed down.
Correct. This is required because of a design flaw in MacOS: it
doesn't guarantee that the same process that got the key down event
will get the key up event. And in fact this bug showed up with some
regularity until we hard-coded the keyUp message to the keyDown event,
ugly as it may be.
> On Windows, if a key is held down for what I'm
> guessing is the repeatDelay, a keyUp message is sent.
True, followed immediately by another keyDown. You will get an equal
number of them, though.
> It seems to be
> impossible to truly test for states of keys on these systems.
>
> Am I missing something here?
Methinks you've overlooked the "keysDown" function, which returns
exactly this information.
Regards,
Scott
> Regards,
>
> Scott
>
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