Keypress Help

[Pat Trendler]

Win XP Pro SP2 etc

 All keys detected except those you wouldn't expect to detect:  Power, Sleep 
and WakeUp.

Pat

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Rossi" <scott at tactilemedia.com>
To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 10:06 AM
Subject: Re: Keypress Help


> Recently, J. Landman Gay  wrote:
>
>>> How can one reliably tell on Windows when a key is pressed versus when 
>>> it is
>>> released?
>>
>> Are you sure you don't have your operating systems backwards? ;) In my
>> experience, it has always been Mac OS that doesn't generate accurate
>> keyUp messages. Windows has always worked for me. That is an OS
>> limitation, as Macs send keyup immediately after keydown, regardless of
>> the physical state of the key itself. Or at least, that's how it has
>> always been in the past.
>
> Thanks for the response Jacque.  But I wonder if you might be thinking 
> about
> OS9.  OSX works great for me.
>
> When I run the following simple test stack on MacOS, it works as expected:
>
>  go url "http://www.tactilemedia.com/download/keytracker.rev"
>
> Enable the test button and press one/some keys.  The pressed keys are 
> shown
> and [empty] is displayed when nothing is pressed.
>
> When this is run on WindowsXP, I get a mostly empty result, that flickers
> between the pressed keys and [empty].  The keysDown function is apparently
> not working because it doesn't seem to reliably return the keys that are
> pressed (my understanding is the keysDown function was originally designed
> to get around this whole key detection problem).
>
> Does this work for you on Windows (or anyone else for that matter)?
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design
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