OptionKey madness

[Frank Leahy]

On Monday, March 22, 2004, at 05:00  PM, 
use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:

> From: Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com>
> Subject: Re: OptionKey madness
> To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
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> On 3/22/04 6:58 AM, "Frank Leahy" <frank at backtalk.com> wrote:
>
>> This works as expected on my machine (Mac OSX, 10.2.8) -- all keycodes
>> come through and the optionKey is correct when up and down.
>>
>> on rawKeyDown whichKey
>>  put "raw key " & whichKey && the optionKey
>>  pass rawKeyDown -- same with or without this
>> end rawKeyDown
>
>
> Did you try typing the keystrokes into a field?
>

Nope, doesn't work in a field.

Having worked at Apple, the feeling was that the command key and 
function keys are for user input (menus, and user or app choosable 
functions respectively).  And there's the question of what happens if 
someone wants to type a bullet character into the field with option-8, 
is Richard not going to let the bullet character appear in the field?

There is a way around this bug of course -- Richard can simply watch 
every character being added to the field, and if the last character 
matches one of the optionKey characters, then do whatever he was going 
to do in the rawKeyDown handler.

-- Frank