Re: keyDownEvent silcscreen buttons

[Veronica Loell]

I finally managed to solved my problem, as I cryptically indicated in my 
followup. I was simply too high up in the event loop which of course 
meant that I didn't get all the keydown events to my handler-functions. 
Some of the virtual keydowns did go through though, due to something 
else entirely of course, but that was what was confusing me. I had 
several vchr* that worked in my eventhandling but not that particular 
one. So I was looking in all the wrong places for an answer.
Thanks,
Veronica

Alexandre Kazantsev wrote:
What I did to intercept the vchrFind among the other hard/silkscreen buttons
is the following:
   if ( event.eType == keyDownEvent )
   {
     if  ( TxtCharIsHardKey(event.data.keyDown.modifiers,
event.data.keyDown.chr)
             || event.data.keyDown.chr == vchrFind      // Find silkscreen
button
             || event.data.keyDown.chr == vchrLaunch  // Home silkscreen
button
         )
     {
        FrmDispatchEvent(&event);
        continue;
     }
   }
FrmDispatchEvent directs the process to the active form event handler and
the Find button event is handled there. The 'continue' skips all the system
processing in the app loop.
It was curiously enough to know that the Calculator button is considered a
hard key, not a silk screen button.
Hope it helps.


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