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Re: Is Keypressed dead forever?


  • Subject: Re: Is Keypressed dead forever?
  • From: Robert Poland <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 16:06:47 -0700
  • Z-usanet-msgid: XID196ukCXgW8352X31

Shane,

Excuse this old man but can you modify this to catch more than one of the modifier keys?

> On Nov 29, 2016, at 3:56:PM, Shane Stanley <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 30 Nov. 2016, at 4:50 am, Robert Poland <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Now that Sierra has killed ASObjC Runner, has anyone created a way to detect which key is down?
>
> If you mean which modifier key, then you can use this:
>
> use AppleScript version "2.4"
> use scripting additions
> use framework "Foundation"
> use framework "AppKit" -- for NSEvent
>
> my checkModifier:"command"
>
> on checkModifier:keyName
> 	if keyName = "option" then
> 		set theMask to current application's NSAlternateKeyMask as integer
> 	else if keyName = "control" then
> 		set theMask to current application's NSControlKeyMask as integer
> 	else if keyName = "command" then
> 		set theMask to current application's NSCommandKeyMask as integer
> 	else if keyName = "shift" then
> 		set theMask to current application's NSShiftKeyMask as integer
> 	else
> 		return false
> 	end if
> 	set theFlag to current application's NSEvent's modifierFlags() as integer
> 	if ((theFlag div theMask) mod 2) = 0 then
> 		return false
> 	else
> 		return true
> 	end if
> end checkModifier:
>
>
> --
> Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
> <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>, <latenightsw.com>

Robert Poland
Fort Collins, CO


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