mousemove doesn't recognize "shiftkey is down", but only under Windows

Brian Milby brian at milby7.com
Sun Sep 23 18:34:40 EDT 2018


I just did a quick test on Win10 and it works as it should. Tested with LC 9.0.1 stable.

Thanks,
Brian
On Sep 23, 2018, 5:20 PM -0500, Howard Bornstein via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>, wrote:
> Sadly, both the keysDown() function as well as rawKeyDown, only return a
> keycode for the shift key (and the option key) upon key UP. All the other
> keys work on key down but these do not. Do you have any idea why?
>
> Should I file a bug report on ShiftKey down? Were you able to verify this
> bug from the test code I sent (I put it in the card handler of a stack)?
>
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 12:04 PM J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> > On 9/22/18 11:03 PM, Howard Bornstein via use-livecode wrote:
> > > This is exceedingly weird. I can't get a mousemove handler to recognize
> > if
> > > the shiftkey is down (although I think this is true for all key
> > > modifiers—Shiftkey down and OptionKey down for sure). The only way it
> > > detects this state is if I click the mouse button while holding the
> > > shiftkey down.
> >
> > You could see if the keysDown() function works instead.
> >
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