Arrow Keys that actually work in Livecode 8

[richmond62]

They don't seem to.

[sturgis]

Interestingly, if you place a scrolling list field (or perhaps any field?) onto the card, and the select a line in the card so that the field has focus.. The arrowkey handler in your card starts working.

Apparently the field receives the arrowkey just fine, has no handler so its passed up the message path. Looks like the card by itself won't receive an arrowkey without some intermediary to pass it on.

[richmond62]

Looks like the card by itself won't receive an arrowkey without some intermediary to pass it on.

Gosh, I hope not; that's going to be a "right fag" in many respects.

[sturgis]

Its a found bug. Not sure the "adding an intermediary object.." trick is known yet though.
http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17470

[richmond62]

There should not have to be any "intermediate trick", and
my experience of advertising intermediate tricks or work-arounds
is that it slows down the Livecode people from taking things
that have to be SORTED OUT seriously.

The simple fact is that a Card should receive messages from
the arrow keys.

[sturgis]

The only reason I mentioned it isn't to use it as a workaround. More of an indication of HOW its broke. Yes, the card should receive the arrowkey, intermediary or not, and the dictionary agrees. (as does history)

Going to add the information to the bug in hopes that it will help them narrow down the problem.

[FourthWorld]

@Richmond: was this affecting your work in earlier v8 builds, or is it new in v8.0 GM?

[richmond62]

That is a moot point as I never really used any of the earlier versions of LC 8 for any 'work' at all
as my experience on Xubuntu 64-bit was so negative with the thing freezing the computer
(something I have almost never seen since I transitioned from predominantly Macintosh to
predominantly Linux about 9 years ago) and otherwise behaving very oddly.

Certainly, I am not going to try any work on Livecode 8 for now as the "stable" release
is not really cutting the mustard.

[martyWell]

I'm running Indy 8.0.1 on a macbook air. I was going through some of the academy lessons and tearing my hair out -- couldn't get anything to happen using the arrowkey. I did a simple test and built the stack as a standalone. In the standalone, the arrowkey functioned as intended. This is a card script that moves an object up,down, left, right based on the arrow key that is pressed. So, this is not working in browse mode inside the IDE, but does work on a built standalone. I didn't take the time to read all of the posts, but just wanted to mention this and hope it gets fixed (if it hasn't been already).

[richmond62]

Thanks; that's well worth knowing, although it's not much good
for development purposes.

[livecodeali]

It is fixed and merged and the fix will be included in 8.0.2-rc-1 as soon as we can get that out.

https://github.com/livecode/livecode-ide/pull/1197

[richmond62]

It is fixed and merged and the fix will be included in 8.0.2-rc-1 as soon as we can get that out.

Lovely!

[richmond62]

The Arrow Keys work "as expected" in 8.0.2 rc-1.

For anyone who doesn't believe it download this stack and see for yourself.