Whoops! You were talking about media keys of course. I DO get values in a rawKeyUp handler for arrow keys and the others I mentioned. Not for the media keys though. You can just see why. All the other keys are part of a standard ANSI style keyboard. The media keys are not so far as I can tell, as common as it is to have them on a virtually every desktop keyboard these days.
Bob S > On Oct 23, 2023, at 8:22 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > I have in the past was unable to trap a key event for arrow keys. I think > Jacque is right I do not think the system deals with arrow keys the way other > keys work. They do not send any kind of ascii code, so LC would have to > monitor them differently. Does the insert, home page up and page down buttons > return anything? If not then I think that validates the idea that LC is only > looking for ASCII style events. > > Bob S > > >> On Oct 20, 2023, at 8:08 AM, David Bovill via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >> Is there a way to trap for these keyboard events. >> >> Volume and Media Keys: In the HID standard, volume and media control keys >> often have specific usage IDs. For example: >> >> >> - 0xE9 is for volume up. >> - 0xEA is for volume down. >> - 0xE2 is for mute. >> - 0xCD is for play/pauseetc >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
