OptionKey madness

[J. Landman Gay]

On 3/20/04 10:12 AM, Scott Rossi wrote:

> On 3/20/04 3:24 AM, "Richard Gaskin" <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>This card script:
>>
>>on rawKeyDown k
>> if optionKey() is "down" then put k
>> else  pass rawKeyDown
>>end rawKeyDown
>>
>>... displays the value of k when typing Option-2, Option-5, or Option-8
>>into a field, but not when typing any other numeric Option keys in a field.
> 
> 
> Same here in MC and Rev 2.1.2 on OSX.  Seems to be optionkey related since
> capturing unmodified keystrokes works fine.  I wonder if this has to do with
> how you enter special characters like é (accented e) since you typically
> have to enter two keystrokes.

I think that is exactly the problem. Mac OS does not send any key codes 
for certain option key characters until the second key is typed; at that 
point it combines the two keystrokes into one character with an 
international diacritical. This isn't really a bug; it is the way Mac OS 
works.

Other keystrokes are similarly unreported; for example, Shift and 
Command keys send nothing at all until they are paired with another 
typed character.

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