Missing keyUp

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Re: Missing keyUp

Post by dunbarx » Fri Jun 24, 2022 5:04 am

Guys, gals.

This flurry of earnest help is, really, so nice.

Really.

But this is not a LC problem. There is no need to test. "KeyUp" worked for me forever on my office machine (on a 27" iMac) where I do most of my LC work. Just like they said it would. I am on my MacBook Pro right now, and it works just fine. Just like they said it would.

Something peculiar to me has killed it on the iMac. It is perplexing because it failed right in the middle of playing around with that earlier forum thread:
https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=37044
That started out with a lot of "keyUp" experiments but ended up by using the "keysUp" function. Maybe I wore it out.

Anyway, that is the reason I started this thread. Something happened to my set-up, peculiar to that message alone. Or at least I think it is limited to that message. Everything else works just fine; I cannot invoke it from the keyboard at all.

The only thing I have not tried is reloading LC itself. But that makes no sense, since three other versions I tried all fail in the same way.

Wierd.

Craig

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Re: Missing keyUp

Post by richmond62 » Fri Jun 24, 2022 11:03 am

Really.
Somehow you have stumbled on some sort of interference between LC and something
else installed on your iMac: so, now, the thing you might consider (if you can be bothered) is
to work out what is different in terms of installed stuff between your iMac and your
MacBook, and then find out if anything additional on the iMac is the "Application in the Woodpile."

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Re: Missing keyUp

Post by dunbarx » Fri Jun 24, 2022 2:19 pm

Richmond.

The "really" was just a heartfelt "thank you".

Since my iMac is the only machine on the planet that cannot abide the "keyUp" message, I do agree it is something local to that computer. My quandary is "what"? The issue came up while I was fooling around in LC, testing routines in a tiny LC stack. I did not add any pornographic virus safeguards in that time period.

Poof. All of a sudden I could not get a keyUp handler to fire. At first I thought it was the usual bug thing. But no, I found out it was the message itself.

So if it something peculiar to my computer, it came in awfully stealthily.

Craig

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Re: Missing keyUp

Post by dunbarx » Fri Jun 24, 2022 2:24 pm

Richmond.

If you look early on in that other thread:
https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=37044
you can see, live in real time, how it transpired.

Craig

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Re: Missing keyUp

Post by jacque » Fri Jun 24, 2022 5:37 pm

It's a long shot, but check the keyboard system settings. There are some shortcuts that allow certain key combos to do different things and you may have hit one of those accidentally. Particularly, check accessibility settings.
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Re: Missing keyUp

Post by dunbarx » Fri Jun 24, 2022 8:11 pm

Thanks, Jacque. Worth a try. Have to wait until Monday, though.

Craig

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