altkey() down, up & halfway down

[Scott Rossi]

If you are using alt as a modifier:

on rawKeyDown
  if altKey() = down then
     -- do some stuff
  end if
end rawKeyDown

If you just want to detect the alt key, one option could be to use the
idle message which essentially acts as a loop:

[ card or stack script ]
on idle

  if altKey() = down then     -- do some stuff
  end if
  pass idle
end idle




Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX Design




On 12/2/12 12:00 AM, "Richmond" <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:

>Advice from Andre Garzia:
>
>"I have no problem with that and I use it here as well. Just do a visual
>feedback like this:
>on rawKeydown, check for the altKey and change all the labels of the
>buttons for the
>actions they will perform if that key is down, this way, as soon as
>someone presses ALT,
>the labels change and they know what is happening."
>
>which makes 100% sense, but I really don't know HOW on a Macintosh:
>
>On a Macintosh "on rawKeydown, check for the altKey" means 'check that
>the altKey is down as I press another key', so
>any label changing on buttons is going to happen AFTER THE FACT rather
>than BEFORE, which misses the point.
>
>"as soon as someone presses ALT, the labels change"
>
>would be lovely, and can be lovely on Windows or Linux, but cannot on
>Macintosh as
>far as I can see.
>
>Richmond.
>
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