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I had mentioned something like this once before, but need help again. I am trying to print a bunch of line graphics to PDF. If I use the "Print..." menuItem in the "File" menu, and then "Save as PDF" in the dropdown there, I get a pretty decent rendering of the graphics on the card. But if I open pr...

Hi.

By accessible, do you simply mean larger and with high contrast?

Craig Newman

Make a simple stack. An address book or some sort of calculator, perhaps one that changes dollars to pesos or metric to English values. You will have to learn a little bit, of course, to even start, but while you are reading you must also try building. Write to this forum constantly. You might start...

More important. What, if anything, have you done already? Have you made any sort of gadget, large or small/

Craig Newman

So sitting here with a MacBook Air, all those keys that did not work at my office on an old MacAlley keyboard now work fine.

I never would have thought of that.

Craig

Hmmm.

I do have an old clunker of a keyboard. I will try another.

Craig

Richard. There are reasons to do so, but I started the new thread just because the subject would have been close up for anyone interested in what the title said. Merging makes sense, but then we have a long thread where the current state of the discussion would be well down the line. in other words,...

Richard. Yes, press and hold. The "keysDown" function is very literal; it says "down", It means "down". And yes, you get ASCII or "rawKey" information depending on the type of key. So it is a Mac thing? Any Windows keyPress operators out there? If it is OS dependent I will file a bug report. Craig E...

On a card with a button and a wide field, put this in the button script: on mouseUp keysDownTest end mouseUp on keysDownTest if the commandKey is down then exit to top put the keysDown into fld 1 send "keysDownTest" to me in 1 end keysDownTest Now press a few keys. You get a result in the field, and...

Hermann.

You certainly did. I missed it in the other thread.

I hope the OP responds with his thoughts.

Craig

This derives from a thread in this pane "Detect key events in Background", that speaks about detecting "ordinary" key presses, that is, not control keys like the optionKey or capsLock key, when LC is not in front. It seems useful to open another thread, just so more people might see it and add to th...

So I says to myself, "Self? What did Hermann (and you) say about the capsLockKey? That it had its own function? Hmmm. So I says to myself, "Self?" How about this: on mouseUp getGoing end mouseUp on getGoing if the commandKey is down then exit getGoing put the keysDown into fld 1 if fld 1 = 120 then ...

Hermann. You know, I did not have my brain in gear. I and others have made handlers in the past that react to control key events outside LC (or a key like capsLock that has its own function) but never an "ordinary" key, perhaps, the "X" key. The OP indicated he wanted to detect a "specific" key. We ...

Hello, Hermann.

You are so right, as usual.
And all you really need is this: Craig

Hi.

Though LC can run your loop just fine in the background, I do not think it will notice mouse or key events when not on top.

But if it is automatically doing its thing all by itself, why do you need to "tell" it to do it again with a keystroke?

Craig Newman