another mac to Windows gotcha

[Tim Selander]

Hi Paul,

Using 9.0 dp11 community. After sending the post, I found in the 
dictionary that for windows, commandkeydown message. After 
changing my script from controlkeydown to commandkeydown, it 
worked. Sort of.

My next problem is that on the LC/osx I use:
   if pkeyname is "j" then set the playrate of player videoplayer 
to -1
   if pkeyname is "k" then set the playrate of player videoplayer 
to 0
   if pkeyname is "l" then set the playrate of player videoplayer 
to 1

to start, stop or reverse the player from the keyboard. This 
worked great in LC/osx, but is not working in win7/LC.

I changed the lines to
   if pkeyname is "k" then stop player videoplayer
   if pkeyname is "l" then start player videoplayer

and that works in win7/lc. But can't figure out how to send a 
play in reverse command from the keyboard yet.

Tim Selander
Tokyo, Japan


On 2018.02.24 23:44, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote:
> controlKeyDown is absolutely available on Windows. See the dictionary
> entry in LC8.1.9 for example. What version of LiveCode are you using?
>
>
> On 2/24/2018 9:04 AM, Tim Selander via use-livecode wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Trying my first little LC app on Windows. I wrote an app on osx and am
>> now trying to get it to work in a Win7 machine.
>>
>> On the mac app, I use ctrl-J, ctrl-K, and ctrl-L to control the video
>> player. JKL is pretty standard video player control in video editing
>> software.
>>
>> On the mac app, the card script 'listens' for controlkeydown, and if
>> the other key is J K or L, sends the appropriate go, stop, reverse
>> command to the player.
>>
>> Have just discovered controlkeydown is not available on windows. Is
>> there an equivalent? What would the windows guy and gals here use?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tim Selander
>> Tokyo, Japan
>>
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