Re: Detecting a keydown or key up.

Subject: Re: Detecting a keydown or key up.
From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:17:55 -0500

On Aug 2, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Zavatone, Alex wrote:

I've been looking around with google and wonder if, in this modern age, we still have to monkey around to detect a key's state? Particularly the modifier keys?

I've just been looking at this in AppleScript's dictionary ...

keystroke n : a press of a key combination on a Macintosh keyboard

properties

key character, r/o : the character for the key was pressed (ignoring modifiers)

modifiers list of option down | command down | control down | shift down | caps lock down, r/o : the modifier keys pressed in combination

But ... it seems to be brain dead. The only thing that didn't error was

get modifiers

which returns {command key} when run from the editor. Always.

Preceding 'get modifiers' with a delay returns {command key} even if the Option key is down.

If run as an application, it always returns the error "Can't get modifiers".

Or, perhaps I'm using this incorrectly. Anyone know the correct syntax for this?

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