Re: waiting for pressed key and reading key
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- Subject: [mg87616] Re: waiting for pressed key and reading key
- From: dh <dh at metrohm.ch>
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:46:10 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi Adrian, you may use a "KeyDown" event, e.g. like: EventHandler["Cursor here",{{"KeyDown","a"}:>(var=1;),{"KeyDown","b"}:>(var=2;)}] hope this helps, Daniel Adrian Lupascu wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am interested to include in a program a part in which the program > waits until either of two specific keys are pressed, and once this > happens waiting is over and the one key (ut of the two) which was > pressed determines the value of a variable. I basically want to use as a > mean to read user confirmation. > I figured out how to do something in this line by using a DynamicModule, > with an EventHandler that wait for a mouse click. The problem I have > with that is that I would prefer to use keys and also that > "MouseClicked" event requires the cursor to be positioned over a certain > expression. > Any help is appreciated. > > Thanks, > Adrian > > >