Keys pressed

[Douglas Westbrook]

try this
If 105  =  the keysdown then go to card "instruction" of stack 
"whatever"



On Dec 22, 2004, at 9:00 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Alex Tweedly wrote:
>> Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>> Paul Salyers wrote:
>>>
>>>> I need to know how to do a keypressed function:
>>>>
>>>> EX:
>>>>
>>>> press the "I" and it will goto the Information card
>>>>
>>>>     Case Asc("I"), Asc("i")
>>>>          Open instruction card
>>>>     End case
>>>>
>>>> This is an VB example and I have the painful job of converting 
>>>> without much help in doc
>>>
>>> There must be something in those 3,000 pages for ya' -- let's see 
>>> what we can find:
>>>
>>> ...launching Rev, clicking Documentation....
>>> ...flipped the option control to "Search for:", enter "key 
>>> pressed"...
>>>
>>> - blamo!:  found the keyDown and keyUp messages.
>>>
>>> Check those out and you should have what you need.
>>
>> I'm sure it's in there - and I'm even sure Paul tried to look .....
>
> I didn't mean to imply he hadn't.  But while I don't know what path he 
> had tried, I do know what I would try if I were there in his office 
> working for him, which is what I wrote.
>
> Fortunately, the phrasing he used turns up great results.  But as you 
> found, varations can be less useful:
>
>> don't assume it's as easy as it might seem with the benefit of 
>> knowledge/hindsight/intuition that makes you pick the right phrase.
>> Here's what I did ....
>> ... launching Rev,. click Documentation...
>> ... flip option to Search ...., enter "keypress"
>> wait for approx 2 minutes while it spins that stupid little cursor 
>> ....
>> get about 10 entries .... none of which is keyDown or keyUp
>
> 2 minutes?  What speed?
>
> Searching through thousands of tiny text files will never be as fast 
> as working with the native object model as was done in earlier 
> versions, and if it takes two minutes I'd agree it passes a threshold 
> of usefulness.
>
>> (though the 7th entry would (if I hadn't given up by then) have 
>> referred me to keyDown in the "See also ..." list.)
>
> You're right:  I had searched only for the term Paul used, "key 
> pressed".
>
> Trying another avenue, switching to the "Topics" mode I see many 
> things but none called something like "Working with text".  Searching 
> for "keyboard event" also yields zero entries. So does searching for 
> "key event".
>
> Ironically, the best search turns out to be the exact one the poster 
> was looking for, but variations on that are fruitless.
>
> Rather than risk another long thread about the docs, I'll follow my 
> own advice and explore recommendations for improving searching to the 
> RevDocs group at <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RevDocs/>.
>
> But I do agree that there's much room for improvement.  Hopefully the 
> recommendations from the RevDocs group will help.
>
> Good catch.  Thanks.
>
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>  Richard Gaskin
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