"keyedUp" cross-platform woes

Robert Brenstein rjb at robelko.com
Fri Nov 30 14:53:44 EST 2012


On 30.11.2012 at 15:18 Uhr +0200 Richmond apparently wrote:
>Now the ALT-KEY yields a "magic number" (keyDown) number
>on Windows and Linux, and that's fine and dandy, but, as has been 
>pointed out several times, both
>by myself and others, that doesn't happen on a Mac and Livecode 
>seems unable to work out when
>the ALT-KEY is down . . .
>

If I am not mistaken, this is because Mac OS does not actually send 
the code until a "real" key is pressed. Nothing that LC can do about 
it.

Robert




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