Re: Modifier keys
Re: Modifier keys
- Subject: Re: Modifier keys
- From: David Remahl <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 19:50:29 +0100
I really do not understand those who discourage people willing to devote
their time to compile a FAQ. At least 3 questions over the last 24 hours
have been answered with 'either you could have looked in the documentation,
or you could have read the message from a week ago'. This is a waste of
bandwidth, time, and patience...The odd thing is, that those who complain
the most over the unneccesary postings, are the ones who support the FAQ the
least.
If this question could have been listed in a FAQ that all of us accept,
contribute to and read, then maybe we wouldn't have to answer it again! I
suggest that every time a question that has been answered before is asked,
someone who knows the answer posts a message with a subject line of "FAQ:
Topic - Issue" or smtng along that line, and the person who declared himself
as willing to help compiling and maintaining the list takes it and puts it
in the list. If a question answered in the faq is asked, then we have the
right to be upset about it!
/ david remahl (who feels that the discussion about documentation quality,
lazy newbies and egoist gurus is starting to get very boring and
long-drawn.)
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First, what you want to do is a horrible UI and your users will probably
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hate it. It is non-obvious.
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That said, when you press a button its sends its action to its target with
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itself as the sender.
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Look at -currentEvent and -modifierFlags and look at -mouseDownFlags.
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By the way, not only is this well documented but this question was answered
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in this forum last week.
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Not to pick on you personally, but why couldn't you find these in the
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documents. A search fro "modifier" or "flags" or even event would have
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found these.
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> Ok, this is a question that I need answered that I'm asking after I have
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> searched a lot of documentation(I'm saying this in light of all the recent
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> talks about documentation). I have a feeling the documentation is there,
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I
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> just can't find it. Could someone please point me to this documentation
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so
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> that I can read about this topic?
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> My question is this: I have a button that I would like to perform one
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> action when pressed, and another different action when pressed in
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> combination with the Option key. For example, increment a text field
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value
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> when pressed, but decrement the value when option-pressed.
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> Any pointers out there?
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> Thanks,
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> Dan
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> P.S YES, I did search the old archives and didn't come up with a
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solution.
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> It's kind of a hard topic to enter key words for, or maybe I just don't
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know
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> the right words. =)