Up, Down and Sideways

[Roger Eller]

I suspect that, since you begin your story with a "virtual" computer, that
whatever real keys are being recognized on your host machine (the real
one), will be all that the virtual one has access to.  Only a guess.

~Roger
On Dec 15, 2013 5:43 AM, "Richmond" <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:

> So, there I am progging on my Virtual Mac 10.6.7 and I try a script like
> this:
>
> if shiftkey() is down and ctrlKey() is up then
>       set the unicodeText of the selectedText to numToChar(MAGIC)
>    end if
>    if shiftkey() is up and ctrlKey() is down then
>       set the unicodeText of the selectedText to numToChar(11744)
>    end if
>    if shiftkey() is up and ctrlKey() is up then
>       set the unicodeText of the selectedText to numToChar(1073)
>    end if
>
> and bu**er me (that's a technical term) if, when I'm pressing the ctrlKey
> if
> the IDE doesn't pick that up and I end up with numToChar(1073) rather
> than numToChar(11744) - Aha, the Documentation seems to be telling
> big, fat porkies again:
>
> "Returns the state of the Control key." supposedly on Linux, Mac and Win.
>
> So this leaves me in the Sh*t (another technical term) really, as, unable
> to leverage
> the altKey as a modifier on Linux, the ctrlKey on Mac (at least), I don't
> seem to
> have anything beyond the shiftKey and the capsLockKey (and that is a
> problem because
> of its stickiness) that are going to behave themselves cross-platform.
>
> Just set me up in the 'right' sort of mood for Sunday; stroppy, petulant
> and so forth.
>
> Richmond.
>
> P.S. 2 double cups of extra macho, highly sugared, black coffee; served in
> a cup that states
> 'I heart coffee' on its outside.
>
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