Sending keyDown
Richard Gaskin
ambassador at fourthworld.com
Thu Oct 22 11:03:57 EDT 2009
DunbarX wrote:
> Just when I was thinking I had the differences between HC and Rev down, I
> stumble.
>
> I have an editable field with this handler:
>
> on keyDown var
> send "keydown" && var to this stack
> put var
> end keyDown
>
> In HC, any text I type gets placed into the field, so typing works
> normally, but then I can do stuff with the last char, like put it into the msg box.
> Actually, in HC, I say "to Hypercard", but it makes no difference.
>
> But in Rev I get an error message stating that Rev "can't find handler near
> "keyDown".
>
> Can't wait to see where this divergence between the two lies...
Oddly enough, the dispatch command works well here (provided you're
using v3.5):
on keyDown var
dispatch "keydown" to this stack with var
put var
end keyDown
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Richard Gaskin
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