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Re: Detecting a keydown or key up.

Subject: Re: Detecting a keydown or key up.
From: hvarlist <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:39:32 +0200

Here is another approach. The attached shell script returns a string of the keys currently pressed:

set modKeys to do shell script (quoted form of "/Library/Application Support/getkeys")
--> "shift command capslock "
--> "option "
--> "control shift "
etc

Parse the string as needed.

Håvard


(... is it OK to post attachments here?)





Den 2. aug. 2011 kl. 22.03 skrev Stan Cleveland:

> On Aug 2, 2011, at 8:25 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?




[see attached file: getkeys.zip]

Attachment: getkeys.zip
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