rawKeyDown cooking my brain.

[J. Landman Gay]

Richmond Mathewson wrote:

> On my Macintosh, at least, this stack does not do its stuff when I press
> any of the modifier keys (Ctrl, Alt, Command).

The OS does not report to applications when only a modifier key is 
pressed. (It's a little better on Windows for a few keys I think.) The 
OS only sends a message after the accompanying alpha key is pressed. 
This also applies to "commandkeydown" and other similar system messages, 
they only trigger after the second key is pressed.

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> 
> [why no 'altKeyDown' and 'shiftKeyDown' ???]

The alt key is "optionKeydown", but again, you'll only get the message 
after the second key is pressed. The OS doesn't send a message for shift 
at all, because that key instead causes a different numeric parameter to 
be sent.

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