SHIFTkey horrors

[Richmond]

On 05/09/2012 03:53 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:
> Use a send in time loop to monitor shiftkey() and just leave it running?

That sounds a good idea.

BUT isn't the 'send' going to slow things down with regard to other 
keystrokes?

>
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> What follows is an extract from a message I have just sent to a colleague;
>> it concerns
>> a really large problem:
>>
>> ------------------------------**------------------------------**
>> ------------------------------**-----------------------
>>
>> "Then when the shift key is held down, all the vowels appear, type your
>> vowel,
>> then when you let go, the consonant panel appears again
>> This behavior will be *very* familiar to everyone..."
>>
>> That would be perfectly alright (and it appeals to me) if it were not for
>> a limitation in Livecode and/or Macintosh; that when one presses
>> the SHIFT key on a Mac keyboard a Livecode stack does not receive a
>> rawKeyDown signal: this has also been discussed between us
>> several times.
>>
>> For instance; one could have a very simple bit of code rather like this:
>>
>> if shiftkey() is down then
>>   --do something--
>> else
>>   --do something else--
>> end if
>>
>> and it would work without a hitch.
>>
>> What one CANNOT do is something like this:
>>
>> on rawKeyDown KEE
>>   if KEE= XXXX  then --where 'XXXX' is a number--
>>     ---do something----
>>   else
>>     ---do something else---
>>   end if
>> end rawKeyDown
>>
>> as pressing the SHIFTkey on a Mac keyboard does not generate a rawKeyDown
>> number
>> rather like the DELETEkey generates 65288
>>
>> this has been a "right bu**er" all along.
>>
>> SO; it is perfectly possible to have a KEY on the keyboard generate a
>> consonant when the SHIFTkey is NOT down,
>> and a vowel when the SHIFTkey is down; but one cannot change the display
>> that the typist sees in front of him on the screen.
>>
>> [come to think of things, I'm going to post this bit 'up' on the Use-List
>> on the off-chance that some wise soul has
>> found a work-around for this old chestnut]
>>
>> Please don't think I'm so daft I haven't thought about this "one" long and
>> hard . . .  :)
>>
>> ------------------------------**------------------------------**
>> -----------------
>>
>> does anybody have any suggestions as to how one might circumvent this
>> problem?
>>
>> sincerely, Richmond.
>>
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