arrowKey

[paolo mazza]

Thank you Mike,
I was able to use your script.
I realize that getting the arrows key is not as trivial as "get the
mouse" or "get the optionKey".
However your script works fine.
Thanks a lot
Paolo

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm sure this doesn't cover every possibility but will something like the
> following work?
>
> -- in the card I put
> on arrowKey pKey
>   set the cKeyDown of this stack to pKey
>   pass arrowKey
> end arrowKey
>
> on rawKeyUp pKey
>   if pKey is among the items of "65361,65362,65363,65364" then
>      if the cKeyDown of this stack is not empty then set the cKeyDown of
> this stack to empty
>   end if
>   pass rawKeyUp
> end rawKeyUp
>
>
> --And in a button I put
> local tRunning
> on mouseUp
>   if tRunning is empty then put false into tRunning
>   put not tRunning into tRunning
>   checkarrow
> end mouseUp
>
> command checkArrow
>   if tRunning then
>      switch (the cKeyDown of this stack is empty)
>         case false
>            put the cKeyDown of this stack
>            break
>         case true
>            put "No Key is down"
>            break
>      end switch
>      send checkArrow to me in 10 milliseconds
>   end if
> end checkArrow
>
> Depending on your needs this might be enough. It doesn't handle 2 arrow
> keys being pressed (shouldn't be too bad to modify it so that you can
> handle multiple arrow presses, instead of just checking against ALL arrow
> keycodes could have a property for each direction keycode and only wipe out
> the specific arrow key that is released)
>
> To test, set up the stack as described, click the button to start the
> monitoring and then hit your keys. Should show results in the msg box.
>
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 7:51 AM, paolo mazza <mazzapaoloitaly at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>> how can I check if the "arrowKey up" is down or is up ?
>>
>> For example, for the option Key I can write .. if the optioKey is down
>> then...,  for the mouse I can write ... if the mouse is down then ...
>>
>> What about  the arrow keys ?
>>
>> All the best
>>
>> Paolo
>>
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