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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: WaitNextEvent questions
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Date: 17 May 91 12:53:52 GMT
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In article <1991May17.044439.25162@schaefer.math.wisc.edu> dickie@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Garth Dickie) writes:
>Most of the time, the modifiers field seems to be set correctly, but this may
>be an artifact of the previous event.  The way I get modifiers now is to call
>GetKeys and look at the right bits.  I don't like this much :-)

I don't blame you.  This is what I use:

/************************************************************************
 * CurrentModifiers - return the current state of the modifers
 ************************************************************************/
short CurrentModifiers(void)
{
  EventRecord theEvent;
  
  (void) GetNextEvent(nil,&theEvent);
  return(theEvent.modifiers);
}
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Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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