Problems with Rev and Apple's Bluetooth wireless keyboard (??)

[Lynch, Jonathan]

Perhaps the other programs are working in a different way?

If you have the shiftkey down, and press a key, that would send a
different raw character number than if you have the shiftkey up.

The other programs that work with the shiftkey on your keyboard might be
detecting the raw character number that is sent when they shiftkey is
down while you press a standard key, rather than detecting whether or
not the shiftkey is actually down.

-----Original Message-----
From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com
[mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Howard
Bornstein
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 4:09 PM
To: Scott Rossi
Cc: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
Subject: Re: Problems with Rev and Apple's Bluetooth wireless keyboard
(??)

On 6/10/05, Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com> wrote:

> 
> I empathize with you.  Did you try investigating rawKeyDown to see if
*any*
> messages are sent?  Hopefully you will find a workaround.

Per the TD for rawkeydown: 

"On Mac OS systems, no message is sent when a modifier key (Shift,
Option, Control, or Command) is pressed, unless another key is pressed
along with the modifier key."

When I press another key, of course, the shiftkey works as expected
(SEE!)

> 
> I recently endured some significant headaches (and subsequent
embarrassment)
> from a client demo that refused to work on Windows.  Had to get
everything
> working on a Mac at the last minute and apologize to the client for
the
> apparent lack of functionality in Rev.  After many hours of
testing/hair
> pulling, the issue turned out to be a malfunctioning keyboard that I
only
> thought to check on a whim, after much help from this list.

I remember that. Ugh.

> 
> When faced with issues like these, the "Reasons You're A Software
Developer"
> offer little comfort.  It just goes to show that whatever you build
will
> *never* work on every system out there and there is no substitute for,
as
> Klaus Major says, "Test, test, test".

Agreed. It was lucky I found this by accident. Maybe I'll find the
solution by accident also. :-)

-- 
Regards,

Howard Bornstein
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