MaxGUI catching keypresses?

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ozak (Posted 2006) [#1]

Hi. I want to capture special keys such as escape and return in my MaxGUI app but I don't seem to get any key events? Do I need to do anything special?

Dreamora (Posted 2006) [#2]

ctrl, shift and alt are modifiers not key, for those you need to check for the modifier events return should have its own handling as it is used on a "higher level" (usage of default button, new line in textarea etc) and not be usable

ozak (Posted 2006) [#3]

Ok. But what about escape then? I don't get any key events. Do I need to hookup to something?

Dreamora (Posted 2006) [#4]

Can't say. Switched to modifier key combos when using Max (like ctrl - Q for quit and similar, as you can simply hook those up and it handels itself)

CS_TBL (Posted 2006) [#5]

ozak: panels and canvases can get keyevevents, tho not quite 100% the way I like and surely not complete. Create a window and a canvas, click on it and have some eventmonitor output to the debugwindow to see EventID()'s and EventData()'s. (Or look in the manual :P)

skidracer (Posted 2006) [#6]

Look up SetHotKeyEvent.

ozak (Posted 2006) [#7]

Ahh thanks. SetHotKeyEvetn did the trick :)