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From: al@inebriae.UUCP (Al Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Need help w/ Event Manager
Summary: Getting keyup events
Message-ID: <398@inebriae.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 89 12:39:52 GMT
References: <0Yk12oy00WB6Ek10Zb@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: al@inebriae.UUCP (Al Evans)
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In article <0Yk12oy00WB6Ek10Zb@andrew.cmu.edu> al1f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Andy A. Lee) writes:
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>I am running a small program called EventTutor ...[which]... demonstrates
>the Event Manager by continuously displaying event records from
>the event queue.  It is great, it displays mouseUp, mouseDown, updateEvt,
>keyDown, autoKey, ... all except keyUp.  
[source code deleted]

Your problem is that the keyUp event is masked out by default; the
system event mask is intialized at startup to "everyEvent - keyUpMask"
(See IM I-254). I'm not a C person, but in Pascal you would change this
by calling SetEventMask(everyEvent) (IM II-70).
                                          --Al Evans--
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