send "keyUp" / "rawKeyUp" ?

[Richmond Mathewson]

That looks like a good way to start (even though it is the wrong way round).

The next questions (now I'm on a roll, I'll keep rolling) are these:

1. How do I type a rawKey command?  I probably cannot.

2. If I have a script that runs type "q" how do I trap therawKeyDown and 
the rawKeyUp codes
so I can get them into a field?

In terms of calibration all this will do is nothing as a stack that has 
type "q"  is a script will
do just that regardless of the end-user's keyboard layout.

I just set my keyboard layout on my ancient iMac (10.7.5) to Bangla 
(Bengali), which wouldn't know
a "q" to save its life.

My test stack still typed a "q" into my field.

I wonder what rawKeyDown and rawKeyUp the type command actually sent?

I have a fantasy that goes a bit like this:

Pseudocode

select after field "ff"
send "rawKeyUp[113]"

but LiveCode "doesn't love me" that much.

Richmond.

On 25/2/2018 8:44 pm, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote:
> See the dictionary entry for the "type" command. This sends
> rawKeyUp|rawKeyDown messages
>
> This might let you construct a stack that "calibrates" (or whatever you
> want to call it) what keys on any keyboard generate what keyDown number
> and what characters
>
>
> On 2/25/2018 5:09 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote:
>> Erm . . .
>>
>> I want to set up a stack that will list an end-user's keyDowns by
>> sending their system
>> a set of rawKeyUps . . .
>>
>> PseudoCode:
>>
>> in a button:
>>
>> on mouseUp
>>   send "rawKeyDown" to key 113
>> end mouseUp
>>
>> in the cardScript:
>>
>> on rawKeyDown XX
>>    get keyUp XX
>>    put XX somewhere useful
>> end rawKeyDown
>>
>> Richmond.
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