ArrowKey Handler in LiveCode 8?

[RM]

I am beginning to wonder exactly HOW MUCH of the language has been changed,
and what justifies such change.

Richmond.

On 7.05.2016 21:56, Scott Rossi wrote:
> If you want to recreate the behavior of previous versions of LC, you can
> do something like this:
>
> on arrowKey theKey
>     if the selObj is empty then pass arrowKey
>     put loc of the selObj into theLoc
>     put 1 into D
>     if the shiftkey is down then multiply D by 10
>     switch theKey
>         case "left"
>             subtract D from item 1 of theLoc
>             break
>         case "right"
>             add D to item 1 of theLoc
>             break
>         case "up"
>             subtract D from item 2 of theLoc
>             break
>         case "down"
>             add D to item 2 of theLoc
>     end switch
>     set loc of the selObj to theLoc
> end arrowKey
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX/UI Design
>
>
>
>
>> On 7.05.2016 01:07, JOHN PATTEN wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I was going to use the arrow keys to move an object, something like
>>> what Devin wrote up a while ago:
>>>
>>> on arrowKey pWhich
>>>     # determine some way to designate which object is to be nudged
>>>     put the long id of btn "test" into tSelObj # for example
>>>     switch pWhich
>>>       case "left"
>>>         put -1 into tXamount
>>>         put 0 into tYamount
>>>         break
>>>       case "up"
>>>         put 0 into tXamount
>>>         put -1 into tYamount
>>>         break
>>>       case "right"
>>>         put 1 into tXamount
>>>         put 0 into tYamount
>>>         break
>>>       case "down"
>>>         put 0 into tXamount
>>>         put 1 into tYamount
>>>         break
>>>     end switch
>>>     move tSelObj relative tXamount,tYamount
>>> end arrowKey
>>> Šand after a few tests in LiveCode 8, I can¹t get anything to budge
>>> with the arrowkeys? I opened the same stack in LiveCode 7.06 and it
>>> works fine. Something change or is this a bug in 8?
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>
>
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