ControlKeyDown problem - still not working w/Windows

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

Thanks Richard. I hadn't thought of that angle. I'll check it out.

Joe Lewis Wilkins
Architect & Director of Product Development for GSI
<www.glsysinc.com>


On Jan 5, 2011, at 9:14 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
> 
> > I have yet to resolve this issue. Strangely enough, if I allow the
> > OSX version to "see" the controlKeyDown handler, they work the same
> > as the commandKeyDown handler - both being in the stacks' scripts.
> > The only area of suspicion would likely be that I'm running WindowsXP
> > under VM Fusion on my Mac (Pro with Snow Leopard); while running the
> > app in XP, I find that 'the Platform' is Win32, but that shouldn't
> > matter since the Handlers normally use a
> >
> > If the platform is MacOS then
> > beep
> >
> > else....
> >   All the control key stuff
> > end if
> >
> > Does anyone have a similar setup that works?
> 
> You may want to double-check the settings in the VM to see if it's remapping the control key.  I haven't used VM Fusion but I know Parallels provides such an option.
> 
> --
> Richard Gaskin
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