altkey() down, up & halfway down

[J. Landman Gay]

On 11/30/12 5:20 AM, Richmond wrote:
> Is it just me, or . . . ?
>
> So, here I am, during my luch break, at home, AND . . .
>
> having had "No joy" with this on my G3 iMac running Mac OS 10.4 at the
> school:
>
> on mouseUp
>     if the altKey is down then
>       put "down" into fld "fOUTPUT"
>     end if
> end mouseUp
>
> it works on MacINTEL 10.6.7 !!!!!
>
> but NOT on Xubuntu 12.10.
>
> Do INTEL Macs send rawKey messages from modifier keys, while
> PPC Macs do not?

I think every OS is different. Try a handler using "on optionKeyDown". 
Note that no message is sent with the key alone, it is only sent when 
the user types a key combo, but for your shortcuts that's what you want 
anyway.

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