keydown weirdness

[Paul Hibbert]

Tom,

If you remove the "with messages" from the wait statement it works fine - for me at least!

I think that’s what is screwing up the message queue.

Paul

On 2013-02-26, at 8:38 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:

> Has anyone ever experienced this type of weirdness with keyDown trapping?
> 
> I have this script in a substack of my main stack that should speak all characters typed into this field:
> 
> on keyDown pKey
>     if charToNum(pKey) = 32 then
>          TASpeak "Space."
>          TASpeak field "SignIn" of this stack
>     else
>          TASpeak pKey
>     end if
>        pass keyDown
> end keyDown
> 
> 
> Later in a separate main stack:
> 
> on TASpeak pTextToSpeak
>     if gNoSpeech then
>          -- speech mode off
>     else
>          -- process Rate, Pitch etc.
>          revSpeak pTextToSpeak
>          wait until revIsSpeaking() is false with messages
>     end if
> end TASpeak
> 
> Now, If I type "Tom M" into the field slowly I get: Tom M 
> and it speaks each char 
> and then on entering a space it speaks the whole field
> 
> BUT, (here's the weirdness) If I type very fast I get: M moT
> and it speaks it in that order
> 
> This is just absolutely weird. Has anyone else seen this?
> 
> Tom
> 
> -- Tom McGrath III
> http://lazyriver.on-rev.com
> mcgrath3 at mac.com
> 
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