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<div>So when you press an alt key you get no keycode, but you do get a keycode event?</div>
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<font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><b>From:</b> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney [Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 12, 2011 12:02 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: RE [XERTE]: Catching key combinations<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">The trouble is you can’t get a keyDown event from the ALT key going down, and there is not Key.ALT constant for checking
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[mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Patrick Lockley<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 12 January 2011 12:01<br>
<b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: RE [XERTE]: Catching key combinations</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">I built a game once where alt worked with another key in flash?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Wasn’t there some code lying around somewhere that did this – a keydownevent inside a keydownevent?</span></p>
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[mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Julian Tenney<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 12 January 2011 11:54<br>
<b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: RE [XERTE]: Catching key combinations</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 72pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Looks like it might be troublesome then. First thing will be try and get Flash to recognise what you want, then see if we can get
Xerte to handle it as well,</span></p>
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[mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Burnett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 12 January 2011 11:46<br>
<b>To:</b> Xerte list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: RE [XERTE]: Catching key combinations</span></p>
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Replicate shortcut combinations used in another program.</span></p>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">From: Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk<br>
To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:53:50 +0000<br>
Subject: RE: RE [XERTE]: Catching key combinations</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 108pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Apparently there is no Key.ALT constant. I can’t get Flash itself to respond to a key press when ALT is held down.</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"></span></p>
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[mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Burnett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 11 January 2011 22:08<br>
<b>To:</b> Xerte list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE [XERTE]: Catching key combinations</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"></span></p>
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Unfortunately, I can't get onKeyDown to fire if ALT is being held down.<br>
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Can't you wait for the key to go down and then do</span></p>
<pre style="MARGIN-LEFT: 144pt"><br>If (Key.isDown(Key.ALT))<br>{<br> //alt and the key are down<br>}<br><br>Sent: 18 November 2010 18:11<br>To: Xerte list<br>Subject: [Xerte] Catching key combinations<br><br><br>I'm trying to keep some alignment in a piece I'm porting from another tool.<br><br>Some of the buttons use ALT+someKey as shortcuts.<br>The onKeyDown event doesn't pick up ALT.<br>Any ALTernatives?<br><br>Dave</pre>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">From: d_b_burnett@hotmail.com<br>
To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>
Subject: Catching key combinations<br>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:10:51 -0500<br>
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I'm trying to keep some alignment in a piece I'm porting from another tool.<br>
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Some of the buttons use ALT+someKey as shortcuts.<br>
The onKeyDown event doesn't pick up ALT.<br>
Any ALTernatives?<br>
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