Dr Strangelove

[richmond62]

a.k.a How I learnt to love my scroll-wheel mouse.

I have had an obsession with Pentominoes since I bought my sister a Spears Games version of that, knowing full
well that I'd end up playing with it . . . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentomino

Anyway, I got bogged down a while back because I really didn't want to have a separate 'rotate' button for each of the 12 shapes:

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as all sorts of complications arose with drag-and-drop and so on.

Today; for no obvious reason, I started wondering if I could pick up a rawKeyDown signal from the scroll-wheel on my mouse.

Things went rather better than that as I picked up 2 different signals depending on which way I scrolled the wheel.
This really sorted out my previous problem:

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the sample stack is here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1tyxt1015z0h5 ... e.zip?dl=0

[[-hh]]

Nice!
[Hold shiftkey down when scrolling to get two keys more: 65310 and 65311].

[richmond62]

Hold shiftkey down when scrolling to get two keys more: 65310 and 65311

Certainly not on Linux.

Which OS are you using?

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Yes, forgot to say, this is MacOS only.
[Thought you are using a PPC-Mac.]
Linux and Windows handle the modifier keys in a different way.
This differs also between platforms for "modifier- clicks".

[richmond62]

I do, indeed, use a PPC Mac: but Livecode's last version to run on that machine is 6.7,
so I'd be missing a lot were I to stick with that.

As far as I'm concerned I tend not to be interested in much that does not
work completely across the 3 desktop platforms Livecode is available for.

[AxWald]

Hi,

Win 10-64, german keyboard:

Scroll wheel gives 65308/ 65309. Always.

Shift (65505), Alt (65513), Win (L65388, R65399) and "menu" (65383) give their own key repeatedly - replacing the wheel key immediately after it registers.

Ctrl/ Strg doesn't give a rawKeyDown.

Have fun!

[MaxV]

Mac, Linux, and Windows: scroolwhell is always 65308/ 65309.
I tested on Win and Linux.

[richmond62]

always 65308/ 65309

Very good to know!