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Re: Detect shift key down


  • Subject: Re: Detect shift key down
  • From: Ken Heglund <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 22:18:11 -0700

This is how I do it in the application delegate's applicationDidFinishLaunching: implementation...

UInt32	modifiers = GetCurrentKeyModifiers();
if ( modifiers & shiftKey ) {
	// handle shift key...
}

-Ken


On Jun 24, 2011, at 12:19 AM, Bernard Desgraupes wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I need to detect if the shift key is pressed by the user during the startup of my app. How would I do that in Cocoa (targetting 10.5 and greater) ?
>
> The following QA seems inspiring
> http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#qa/qa1519/_index.html
> but I don't know where to install this flagsChanged method and I can't find the key code for the Shift modifier.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Bernard

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