[fpc-pascal] Getting Shift key with PTCCRT

[wkitty42 at windstream.net]

On 9/9/22 5:54 PM, James Richters via fpc-pascal wrote:
> I have some key sequences with PTCCRT.READKEY  where I use a lower case
> letter to do one thing and an uppercase to do another, but if the Capslock
> is on, they do the wrong things.  Is there a way I can check the condition
> of the shift key to see if shift was actually pressed instead of just going
> by whether I got a capital letter or not?   The key input is not something
> that is ever displayed on the screen, it's just making selections and doing
> them.

looking at the list of constants in ptcpas, i find PTCKEY_SHIFT... i also find, 
in Classes, the IPTCKeyEvent which has a GetShift function as well as a Shift 
property... seems like you should be able to the shift status with something like

type myKeyEvent : IPTCKeyEvent;
type myShiftStatus : boolean;

myShiftStatus := myKeyEvent.Shift;


https://ptcpas.sourceforge.io/api-reference/ptc/iptckeyevent.html





NOTE: it has been way too long since i've actually written any pascal code... 
take the above with a grain of salt... i may have the syntax all wrong...


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