How do you detect a key and its modifier?

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squest

(Posted 2010) [#1]

I've been playing around with Blitzmax and MaxGUI and was wondering how you detect key combinations. Among other things, I'm assigning Command + Q or Control + Q to a menu.

Here is the line of code:

CreateMenu "Exit", 999, FileMenu, MODIFIER_COMMAND | KEY_Q

I figured that ORing the two together might work, of course that only equates to the keycode Y. There must be an easy way to do this. Any help for a newbie would be appreciated.

I would also like to do more complicated key combinations such as Command + Shift + V, etc.

Thanks for your time :)

Zeke	(Posted 2010) [#2]

Function CreateMenu:TGadget( text$,tag,parent:TGadget,hotkey=0,modifier=0 )

CreateMenu "Exit", 999, FileMenu, KEY_Q, MODIFIER_COMMAND

CreateMenu "Exit", 999, FileMenu, KEY_Q, MODIFIER_COMMAND | MODIFIER_SHIFT

squest

(Posted 2010) [#3]

Thank you very much. I knew it was something simple. I looked at this a few times but didn't notice the modifier on the end. You've saved me a lot of time. Thanks!