I'd recommend that change from a usability perspective, if nothing else.
As a user/programmer if I ask if the control or shift keys are pressed I
mean right now, not at some indeterminate point of time in the past.

Jeff

At 03:33 PM 8/7/00, Bob Arning wrote:
>Karl,
>
>The Mac VM only reports the modifier keys at the time of the last event 
>(mouse up/down or key pressed). There is now way that I can see to sak it 
>about the state of these keys _right now_. I tried to suggest a change in 
>that area quite a while ago, but didn't get a nibble.
>
>Cheers,
>Bob
>
>On Mon, 07 Aug 2000 21:17:10 +0200 Karl Ramberg <karl.ramberg at chello.se>
wrote:
>>Have you tested this on a mac ?
>>I think the mac os locks *every* other processes when there is a mouse down.
>>At least I can't get this to work. Can anybody else on a mac confirm this ?
>>
>>Karl
>>
>>Jeff Pierce wrote:
>>> 
>>> Yup, there's an unfortunate mix of too much functionality and not enough
>>> modifier keys.  I still hope to implement a more elegant solution, but
>>> until I've got time the current method at least works.  The trick is that
>>> you need to mouse down on a WonderlandActor (or the camera controls) first,
>>> and then hold down Control, Shift, or Shift+Control to access the different
>>> modes.
>>> 
>>> Jeff
>>> 
>>> At 05:54 PM 8/7/00, Karl Ramberg wrote:
>>> >
>>> >In
>>> >WonderlandActor>>onMouseMove
>>> >and
>>> >WonderlandCameraControls>>moveCamera
>>> >
>>> >is supposed to do special manipulation when control key is pressed down 
>but it
>>> >gets overridden by the handMorph and it's special menu:
>>> >
>>> >HandMorph>>handleEvent:
>>> >
>>> >I'm not totally sure how to fix this.
>>> >
>>> >Karl