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Re: Key down (or up) events
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Re: Key down (or up) events


  • Subject: Re: Key down (or up) events
  • From: John Stewart <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2016 18:20:52 -0400

On 7/5/16 at 10:52 AM, email@hidden (Håvard Graudo) wrote:

Here is another solution, if you also need to support older OSes. I have used this at least since 10.6. (probably 10.5) and up to 10.11.

Download and put this somewhere.
https://filer.inkognito.no/_o8n0OAOhF2n17R

Call it and it will return a string of the keys down. Example:

set modKeys to do shell script (quoted form of "/Library/Application Support/ScriptLibs/getkeys")
—> "shift control option command capslock fn”

It ignores other keys

Have used it for years, but could not find the source file atm, but if I dig a bit deeper I probably would – you may prefer to compile it yourself.

Unfortunately this would require installation of third party software that I cannot vet as the file has been precompiled and is without any notes. For my own usage it looks like it would fit the requirements.

JBS


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