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