If I remember right, the keypad worked better than the arrow block but since the problem mostly occurred on laptops this isn't that much help.
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com>wrote: > On 03/22/2013 01:46 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > >> keysdown() works pretty well with some exceptions that are probably due to >> keyboard issues rather than livecode issues. (like some keyboards having >> problems with multiple arrow keypresses at the same time, keysdown doesn't >> always show all the correct keys, yet other keyboards work fine) >> >> But yeah, keysdown works pretty good for game control (again, ignore the >> arrow keys, they're problematic if you need more than 1 read at a time >> and/or if during presses two that disagree are down at just the moment the >> poll hits) >> >> >> > Maybe I'm being a bit naive . . . > > But . . . > > a script like this: > > on rawKeyDown RAWK > put RAWK into fld "ff" > end rawKeyDown > > and a script like this: > > on rawKeyDown > put keysDown() into fld "ff" > end rawKeyDown > > neither seem particularly better than the other as they are fired on a > keyDown, > and are not repeatedly fired if a key is kept pressed down. > > WHAT I need is a way of checking whether a key is down independent of the > actual action > of it being pressed down - rather as with mouseStillDown a check is sent > to see if the mouseButton > is depressed independently of the action of it being pressed. > > > Richmond. > > ______________________________**_________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/**mailman/listinfo/use-livecode<http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
