Re: Detecting a keydown or key up.
Re: Detecting a keydown or key up.
- Subject: Re: Detecting a keydown or key up.
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 08:32:39 +1000
- Thread-topic: Detecting a keydown or key up.
On 3/8/11 7:25 AM, "Luther Fuller" <email@hidden> wrote:
> What would be nice in AppleScript is a function that would return, perhaps, a
> list of names of all keys pressed.
> I could use it in an application with instructions such as ...
> "Launch the application with the option key pressed and you will get ..."
>
> on run
> get keyboardStatus
> if the result contains "option" then
> -- do this
> else
> -- do that
> end if
> end run
>
> Surely there must be something in unix to do this, but I searched a few
> minutes ago and ... nothing!
So open AppleScript Editor in Lion and choose File -> New From Template ->
Cocoa-AppleScript Applet.app. Include the handler Alex posted above, so your
script is like this:
on run
if checkModifier_(me) then -- "option" key is down
-- do this
else
-- do that
end if
end run
on checkModifier_(sender)
set theMask to current application's NSAlternateKeyMask as integer
set theFlag to current application's NSEvent's modifierFlags() as integer
return ((theFlag div theMask) mod 2) as boolean
end checkModifier_
--
Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
'AppleScriptObjC Explored' <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>
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