Up, Down and Sideways

[Richmond]

On 15/12/13 16:44, Roger Eller wrote:
> I suspect that, since you begin your story with a "virtual" computer, that
> whatever real keys are being recognized on your host machine (the real
> one), will be all that the virtual one has access to.  Only a guess.

When one considers that virtualisation is a very important concept re 
computing then developing
software within a virtualised machine is not quite as daft as it may seem.

If I connect a Mac keyboard to my virtualised Mac (obviously via the 
physical
machine virtualisation is taken place within), or a PC keyboard, I get 
the same rawKeyDowns.

I am currently working on Mac OS 10.6.7 virtualised on a DELL Optiplex 
745 running UbuntuStudio 13.10,
right next to a G3 iMac running Mac OS 9.2.2 (!!!); now, currently on 
that machine I am running RR/LC 2.0
and a stack that contains a single field "OOT", and a card script:

on rawKeyDown RAWK
    put RAWK into fld "OOT"
end rawKeyDown

with identical Mac keyboards connected to the two machines I am getting 
the same rawKeyDown codes.

The really funny thing is that with that stack on the underlying Linux 
the stack takes 4 times as long to respond with the rawKeyDown codes as 
does the G3. As the G3 iMac has a 400MHz PPC processor with 384 MB RAM,
while the Linux box has a 2.7 MHz dual core INTEL processor with 6 GB 
RAM that seems very odd indeed; unless, of course, LC 6.5.0 is suffering 
from some sort of memory bloat compared with LC 2.0.

In the virtualised environment (with 4.6 GB RAM apportioned to it) the 
speed of the rawKeyDown codes
is almost exactly the same as the Linux box (unsurprisingly).

Richmond.
>
> ~Roger
> On Dec 15, 2013 5:43 AM, "Richmond" <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So, there I am progging on my Virtual Mac 10.6.7 and I try a script like
>> this:
>>
>> if shiftkey() is down and ctrlKey() is up then
>>        set the unicodeText of the selectedText to numToChar(MAGIC)
>>     end if
>>     if shiftkey() is up and ctrlKey() is down then
>>        set the unicodeText of the selectedText to numToChar(11744)
>>     end if
>>     if shiftkey() is up and ctrlKey() is up then
>>        set the unicodeText of the selectedText to numToChar(1073)
>>     end if
>>
>> and bu**er me (that's a technical term) if, when I'm pressing the ctrlKey
>> if
>> the IDE doesn't pick that up and I end up with numToChar(1073) rather
>> than numToChar(11744) - Aha, the Documentation seems to be telling
>> big, fat porkies again:
>>
>> "Returns the state of the Control key." supposedly on Linux, Mac and Win.
>>
>> So this leaves me in the Sh*t (another technical term) really, as, unable
>> to leverage
>> the altKey as a modifier on Linux, the ctrlKey on Mac (at least), I don't
>> seem to
>> have anything beyond the shiftKey and the capsLockKey (and that is a
>> problem because
>> of its stickiness) that are going to behave themselves cross-platform.
>>
>> Just set me up in the 'right' sort of mood for Sunday; stroppy, petulant
>> and so forth.
>>
>> Richmond.
>>
>> P.S. 2 double cups of extra macho, highly sugared, black coffee; served in
>> a cup that states
>> 'I heart coffee' on its outside.
>>
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