BrainModular

Posted: **25 Aug 2009, 17:50**

Hi,

Is there a way to always get the control, alt and shift state in a module, not only when the mouse is on the module panel?

thanks

Posted: **25 Aug 2009, 22:47**

yes when the procedure MouseMove (void* pModule, TShiftState Shift, int X, int Y) is called Usine fill the ShiftState in the 'Shift' parameter.

But there is an error in the Userdefinitions.h file

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//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// keys state modifiers
// used in MouseMove, MouseUp and MouseDown functions declaration &#40;see end of file&#41;
 typedef enum TShiftState &#123; 
	  ssShift, 
	  ssAlt, 
	  ssCtrl, 
	  ssLeft, 
	  ssRight, 
	  ssMiddle, 
	  ssDouble 
  &#125;;

must be replaced by

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//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// keys state modifiers
// used in MouseMove, MouseUp and MouseDown functions declaration &#40;see end of file&#41;
typedef DWORD TShiftState ;

static DWORD const ssShift = 0x1
static DWORD const ssAlt = 0x2
static DWORD const ssCtrl = 0x4
static DWORD const ssLeft = 0x8
static DWORD const ssRight = 0x10
static DWORD const ssMiddle = 0x20
static DWORD const ssDouble = 0x40

so you can check if 'Shift' contains one or several values above.

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if &#40;&#40;Shift & ssCtrl&#41; !=0&#41; &#123;..&#125; //means that the Ctrl key is pressed

This error will be 'officially' corrected in the next SDK release.

Posted: **25 Aug 2009, 23:03**

yes, i found the error, but in this way I get the shift state only if I move the mouse (on the window?).
I would like to get the shift state even if I don't move the mouse...

Posted: **26 Aug 2009, 10:19**

for that you have to query directly the keyboard state like:

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  BYTE state&#91;256&#93;;

    #define KEY_PRESSED&#40;key&#41; &#40;state&#91;key&#93; & 0x80&#41;

    GetKeyboardState&#40;state&#41;;
    if &#40;KEY_PRESSED&#40;VK_CONTROL&#41; && KEY_PRESSED&#40;'C'&#41;&#41; &#123;
        // CTRL-C pressed
    &#125;

Posted: **26 Aug 2009, 16:40**

Thanks!

Posted: **26 Aug 2009, 16:54**

senso wrote:for that you have to query directly the keyboard state like:

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  BYTE state&#91;256&#93;;

    #define KEY_PRESSED&#40;key&#41; &#40;state&#91;key&#93; & 0x80&#41;

    GetKeyboardState&#40;state&#41;;
    if &#40;KEY_PRESSED&#40;VK_CONTROL&#41; && KEY_PRESSED&#40;'C'&#41;&#41; &#123;
        // CTRL-C pressed
    &#125;

useful infos, have to put this on the wiki

thanks senso

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Get control-alt-shift state