Could someone kindly tell me the best way to initiate an event from a keyboard stroke, such as pressing the space bar?
My dot net knowledge is rusty and I have trouble with the poor mxs documentation. Thank you all for your attention.
You didn’t specify where you need to catch that event, but here’s an example for the textbox
try (destroydialog X ) catch ()
rollout X "" width:250 (
edittext mxsTextbox ""
dotnetcontrol dotnetTextbox "system.windows.forms.textbox"
dotnetcontrol cc "UserControl" width:224 height:20 offset:[0,10]
local mxsText = ""
fn onKeyPress s ev = (
if ev.keyCode == ev.keyCode.Space do format "User control space pressed!
"
)
on x open do (
cc.controls.add (dotnetobject "system.windows.forms.textbox")
dotNet.addEventHandler cc.controls.item[0] "keyUp" onKeyPress
dotNet.setLifetimeControl cc.controls.item[0] #dotnet
cc.controls.item[0].width = 224
)
on mxsTextbox changed txt do (
for i=1 to txt.count do (
if txt[i] != mxsText[i] do (
if txt[i] == " " then format "edittext space pressed!
" else exit
)
)
mxsText = txt
)
on dotnetTextbox keyUp ev do (
if ev.keyCode == ev.keyCode.Space do format "Dotnetcontrol space pressed!
"
)
)
createDialog X pos:[100,100]
Thanks very much for that.
I actually just need the control on a button, so that when I press the button, another action will hap;pen when spacebar is pressed.
It’s nothing to do with text input… It’s to do with activating a movement recorder I’ve written. ( to start and stop the recording as I move the mouse around)
Do I need a dot net form control or what?
Thank you once again
Same story.
You can run showevents <yourDotNetControlHere> to get a list of available events
try (destroydialog X ) catch ()
rollout X "" (
dotnetcontrol btn "system.windows.forms.button"
on btn keyup s ev do (
if ev.keyCode == ev.keyCode.space then (
format "Space pressed!
"
)
)
)
createDialog X pos:[100,100]