control and option keys not working on Tiger with 2.6?

Sivakatirswami katir at hindu.org
Mon Jul 11 21:57:32 EDT 2005


OK, it's OSX... I shut down.. rebooted with cmd-S ran fsck -fy ...  
twice... there were some errors... now the option key and control  
work in Rev.

Question remains though, why they worked in other apps and not in Rev.

but all's well now.

skts

On Jul 11, 2005, at 7:52 AM, Sivakatirswami wrote:

> Sarah:
>
> That's a good clean simple test... and it fails here... All I get  
> is Up or Down regardless of what other keys are pressed.
>
> I don't know if I have any front scripts loaded.. I don't think I  
> do... how does one wipe out front scripts
>
> [time passes as he changes this script to put the response into a  
> field and then boot the stack  from a splash player standalone so  
> the IDE is not loaded]
>
> .....nope, still not go... running from a Player with no IDE  
> loaded... I'm getting nothing...
>
> something in my system? I better test in some other apps.. he quits  
> rev...opens mail.app.. .all option and cmd-option keys are working
>
> open BBEdit... open doc... control key strokes are trapped and  
> implemented as expected..
>
> mmm dunno now... my bluetooth keyboard is not interfering.. if I  
> unplug everything and reboot my machine and do it from the real  
> keyboard.. still not go... option key and control key not trapped  
> by rev
>
> sigh... this will be a tough one to sort out.
>
> skts
>
>
>
>
> On Jul 10, 2005, at 2:03 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:
>
>
>> Using Tiger (10.4.1) & Rev 2.6, I made a new stack, with nothing  
>> in it except this card script:
>>
>> on mouseDown
>>   if controlkey()="Down" then
>>     put "Down + control"
>>   else
>>     put "Down"
>>   end if
>> end mouseDown
>>
>> on mouseUp
>>   if optionkey()="Down" then
>>     put "Up + option"
>>   else
>>     put "Up"
>>   end if
>> end mouseUp
>>
>> It worked exactly as I expected, so i think you may have something  
>> else causing your problem. Do you have any frontScripts that could  
>> be intercepting the keys?
>>
>> Sarah
>>
>>
>
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