Keybindings: Recognizing Control, Alt, etc on different platforms
Fredrik Lundh
fredrik at pythonware.com
Fri Sep 24 05:06:35 EDT 1999
Egeland <egelando at online.no> wrote:
> Hi all. My app uses the "<Key>" binding, and I must know in the callback
> procedure if thats a
> Control-k or plain k coming in. On Linux, say, I can use the clause
>
> if event.keysym=="k" and event.state==4: # Control-k, not just 'k'
> # do something
>
> but that wont work on win32. Is there some platform independent way of
> recognizing modifications like Control, Alt, and Shift ?
state is a bitmap; try changing your test to:
> if event.keysym=="k" and event.state & 4: # Control-k, not just 'k'
> # do something
(unless you want to tell your customers to avoid
using numlock, of course ;-)
</F>
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