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| From | Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.javascript |
| Subject | Re: Interrogation of Shift-Key state - workaround |
| Date | 2016-06-26 01:31 +0200 |
| Organization | Aioe.org NNTP Server |
| Message-ID | <nkn48i$b0a$1@gioia.aioe.org> (permalink) |
| References | <nklv6p$eap$1@gioia.aioe.org> <nkn0sc$72v$1@gioia.aioe.org> <nkn21r$19b$1@solani.org> |
On 26.06.2016 00:53, Christoph M. Becker wrote:
> On 26.06.2016 at 00:33, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
>
>> On 25.06.2016 14:59, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
>
>>> I want to interrogate the boolean state of the Shift-Key (pressed or not).
>>
>> In my system context (Linux) the workaround that I wanted to avoid works as
>> expected at least. So for folks who want to implement such functionality
>> and are interested in my workaround I post the code skeleton for reference.
>>
>> […]
>
> In another reply you've mentioned that you're actually being interested
> in interogating whether a shift key is pressed while a mouse button is
> clicked. For that purpose you don't need that workaround, but rather
> can ask for whether a shift key is pressed in the click event handler
> (as has been pointed out by others already[1]):
Oh, I suppose you mean that part where I answered: "Obviously I can't put
the ties together." Obviousy I wasn't able to derive functional code from
that statement. I tried some code variants but none was functional.
>
> someElement.addEventListener("click", function (event) {
> if (event.shiftKey) {
> alert("shift key pressed while mouse button clicked");
> }
> }
Thanks for this code sample; this is very valuable!
Janis
>
> [1] Which have been actually more useful replies than this one, even
> though that might not appear so to you. :)
Even if it might not appear so to you, but your reply was actually much
more useful (to me) than some of the quibbling previous replies. :-)
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Interrogation of Shift-Key state Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2016-06-25 14:59 +0200
Re: Interrogation of Shift-Key state Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-06-25 17:18 +0200
Re: Interrogation of Shift-Key state Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2016-06-25 19:47 +0200
Re: Interrogation of Shift-Key state Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-06-25 20:07 +0200
Re: Interrogation of Shift-Key state "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-06-25 08:51 -0700
Re: Interrogation of Shift-Key state Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2016-06-25 19:47 +0200
Re: Interrogation of Shift-Key state Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-06-25 20:17 +0200
Re: Interrogation of Shift-Key state Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2016-06-25 21:16 +0200
Re: Interrogation of Shift-Key state Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-06-25 22:33 +0200
Re: Interrogation of Shift-Key state Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2016-06-26 00:49 +0200
Re: Interrogation of Shift-Key state Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2016-06-26 00:06 +0100
Re: Interrogation of Shift-Key state Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-06-26 11:05 +0200
Re: Interrogation of Shift-Key state "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-06-25 12:17 -0700
Re: Interrogation of Shift-Key state "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-06-25 12:23 -0700
Re: Interrogation of Shift-Key state Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2016-06-26 00:34 +0200
Re: Interrogation of Shift-Key state Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-08-18 20:29 +0200
Re: Interrogation of Shift-Key state "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-08-18 15:17 -0700
Re: Interrogation of Shift-Key state Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-08-20 07:23 +0200
Re: Interrogation of Shift-Key state "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-08-20 00:03 -0700
Re: Interrogation of Shift-Key state Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-08-20 11:48 +0200
Re: Interrogation of Shift-Key state "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-08-25 13:39 -0700
Re: Interrogation of Shift-Key state "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-06-25 12:20 -0700
Re: Interrogation of Shift-Key state Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2016-06-25 22:33 +0100
Re: Interrogation of Shift-Key state Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2016-06-26 01:18 +0200
Re: Interrogation of Shift-Key state Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2016-06-26 00:23 +0100
Re: Interrogation of Shift-Key state Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2016-06-26 01:37 +0200
Re: Interrogation of Shift-Key state Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2016-06-26 09:41 +0100
Re: Interrogation of Shift-Key state - workaround Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2016-06-26 00:33 +0200
Re: Interrogation of Shift-Key state - workaround "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2016-06-26 00:53 +0200
Re: Interrogation of Shift-Key state - workaround Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2016-06-26 01:31 +0200
Re: Interrogation of Shift-Key state - workaround "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-06-25 16:52 -0700
Re: Interrogation of Shift-Key state - workaround "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2016-06-26 01:56 +0200
Re: Interrogation of Shift-Key state - workaround "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-06-25 16:50 -0700
Re: Interrogation of Shift-Key state Joao Rodrigues <jr@none.com> - 2016-06-25 20:34 -0300
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