altkey() down, up & halfway down

[Richmond]

On 30/11/12 19:47, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> 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.
>

Thanks, Jacque . . . as usual I have solved the problem having already 
made myself look
a complete fool all over the use-list . . . LOL

Nothwithstanding the above, I do wonder why Livecode-on-Mac cannot grab 
onto rawKeyDowns
for modifier keys.

Richmond.