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From: mlab2@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Missing key-up events
Message-ID: <26477.2731f060@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 3 Nov 90 03:17:03 GMT
References: <1990Nov3.000228.15849@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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In article <1990Nov3.000228.15849@portia.Stanford.EDU>, stevea@portia.Stanford.EDU (Steve Aronson) writes:
> Hi,
>   I have a program written in Think C where I track key-up and key-down
> events.  I set a boolean to be TRUE on key-down and then set it
> to FALSE on key-up for a given key. My problem is that sometimes a key-up
> event is not generated for a corresponding key-down event. <stuff deleted> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steve

I too have encountered this problem but with LSPascal.  I have seen it
suggested that it is a KeyUpMask default.  However, I have set the event mask
to everyEvent and still have similar problems.  Is this just a symptom of my
Mac Plus?
BTW, in Glypha I got around this by including a GetKeys call in every pass
through the main loop, but I've always thought this was a cludgy thing to do. 
Has anyone been able to get keyUp events to work _reliably_?

Thanks also,

john calhoun (aka soft dorothy)