How to detect shift down

Ross Boylan RossBoylan at stanfordalumni.org
Sat Apr 27 01:17:47 UTC 2002


On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 05:35:01PM -0700, John M McIntosh wrote:
> >On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 11:27:55AM +0200, Andreas Raab wrote:
> >> > >	ActiveEvent shiftPressed.
> > > >
> > > >
> 
> The global var Sensor points to the active Sensor for managing events 
> from the VM.
> 
> So
> 
> Sensor shiftPressed
> 
> should do what you want it
> 
> 
> ActiveEvent is a global that points to the current MorphicEvent 
> subclass instance which might or might not know about the shift key 
> right yet, since of course the Sensor knows about the shift key a bit 
> ahead of giving it to Morphic.
> 
> Mind it seems as you noticed be set to nil, (should it be?).

Unfortunately, Sensor shiftPressed not working was what got me started
on this thread :(.  I just double-checked, and it does not test as
true, even though I'm sitting on the shift key.

This is on Linux, 3.2alpha #4599.



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