Send "rawKeyUp"

[J. Landman Gay]

And here I was, looking for a post card. What I was planning to write on it 
was: it's easiest to set the key repeat rate in the OS. Macs allow that, 
not sure about other systems.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com



On October 15, 2017 5:24:11 AM Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Nothing quite beats answering one's own e-mails,
>
> except, possibly, banging one's head against the wall (Don't believe me?
> Try it some time!)
>
> this in a cardScript:
>
> on rawKeyDown RAWK
> if the XXXX of this card = "in" then
>         do something
>      end if
> set the XXXX of this card to "out"
> end rawKeyDown
>
> on rawKeyUp RUP
> set the XXXX of this card to "in"
> end rawKeyUp
>
> I hope this is of some use to more people than just myself.
>
> Richmond.
>
> On 10/15/17 12:56 pm, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
>> I'm suffering from "sticky finger syndrome" and cannot get my finger
>> off a key quickly enough to
>> stop it firing more than once . . .
>>
>> SO . . .
>>
>> Wondered about this sort of thing [pseudocode]:
>>
>> on rawKeyDown RAWK
>>        do something
>>        send "rawKeyUp" to where?
>> end rawKeyDown
>>
>> answers on a postcard, employees of the "Richmond Fan Club" are
>> not eligible for prizes, giveaways or gratuitous insults.
>>
>> Richmond.
>
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