Re: Possible to simulate just the control key?
Re: Possible to simulate just the control key?
- Subject: Re: Possible to simulate just the control key?
- From: Steven Sanders <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 19:33:35 -0700
Michael -
You might try Extra Suites at:
http://www.kanzu.com
It has the ability to type keys with modifier keys.
- Steven
On Wednesday, March 24, 2004, at 10:32 AM, Michael Ziober wrote:
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Does anyone know how to make iDVD 3 running on OS X 10.3.2 think that
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_just_ the control key is down? Hopefully something better than "lay a
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book on the control key"! :-)
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iDVD (aside from its odd object model and dictionary) has an
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unofficial feature which checks the state of the control key, plus a
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few other things, when burning a disc, which allows it to be used to
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automatically batch build and "burn" DVDs as disk images.
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Unfortunately, iDVD is testing the key directly as opposed to whether
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it is used as a modifier for a keyboard event, so "keystroke using
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control down" isn't what I need.
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I have a keyboard map which indicates that the code for the control
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key is 0x3B, but "key code 59" doesn't seem to have any effect. It
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appears to generate a single keyboard event, rather than allowing me
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to set the key state to down, send a command to iDVD, and then set the
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state to up. This makes sense because the syntax makes no distinction
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as to the key state.
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Finally, I stumbled across this key combo by random experimentation:
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press and hold LEFT control key, press and hold RIGHT control key,
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release LEFT control key, release RIGHT control key. This locks the
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control key in the down state. Press and release the LEFT control key
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to unlock it. Oddly, this combination works only for the control key
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and no other modifiers. It also seems to be independent of any
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keyboard or universal access settings, so why is it there?
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While the last method is functional, it's also an ugly hack which is
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very confusing when you forget that it's active! So, does anyone have
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any wisdom on using key code or perhaps an OSAX that works with
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Panther? I'm willing to entertain anything: BSD, SystemUIServer,
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System Events, etc.
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Thanks,
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Michael
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