Trapping multiple keystrokes

[J. Landman Gay]

It's a function, so try

get flushEvents("autoKey")
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On December 1, 2017 4:05:20 PM Kaveh Bazargan via use-livecode 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Hi Paul
>
> It looks like just what I need and thanks for that, but it does not do the
> job in my stack and in the single field stack with one line added:
>
>
> on arrowKey theKey
>    put 1 into increment
>    put me into current_value
>    if theKey is "up" then
>       put current_value + increment into the target
>       repeat with i = 1 to 1000000
>          put 1+i into temp
>       end repeat
>    end if -- up
>    if theKey is "down" then
>       put current_value - increment into the target
>    end if -- down
>    flushEvents("autoKey")
>    pass arrowKey
> end arrowKey
>
> (note flushEvents near end)
>
> The stack moves from the front so it no longer sees the arrows. This is a
> separate problem I have had. (sorry to bring up this second issue.) Cannot
> work out how to bring forward the main stack
>
> On 1 December 2017 at 21:45, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>> On 12/1/2017 1:00 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote:
>> > On 12/1/2017 12:52 PM, Kaveh Bazargan via use-livecode wrote:
>> >> I have a field with a number in it. when focused, I want the value to
>> go up
>> >> and down with the up/down arrow keys. The trouble is that if I keep the
>> key
>> >> down, it traps multiple keydown messages that continue after the key is
>> >> released.
>> >>
>> >> How can I ensure that message are terminated as soon as arrow key is
>> >> released?
>> >>
>> > look at the dictionary entries for 'the pendingMessages' and the
>> > 'cancel' command
>> >
>> >
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>> what you actually want is flushEvents(eventType) -- see dictionary
>>
>>
>> just execute flushEvents("autoKey") when you handler is done to clear
>> extraneous arrowkey messages
>>
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