Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED.wIgm+2MIUUYkuZKIR0Uhug.user.gioia.aioe.org!not-for-mail From: "R.Wieser" Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: How to check if a key is currently down ... Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2019 09:23:22 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: wIgm+2MIUUYkuZKIR0Uhug.user.gioia.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5512 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512 X-Priority: 3 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:36315 Peter, Sorry for the late reply, I got a bit distracted with another project ... > Maybe store a flag with GM and do your action on the next page if it is > set If I can do that (store a flag into GM space which survives page changes) than I can probably do with the already available catching key-state change events (or the 'User Script Commands' below). > That behavior can also be implemented by a simple button anywhere on the > page I only realized that after I conceeded that getting a keystate isn't possible and started looking for other possibilities. Heck, I've already used a similar method elsewhere (capturing mouse clicks) ... > The 'User Script Commands' were removed in GM 4. I'm (still) running 3.17 (on FF 52), and yesterday saw that it indeed does work. Bummer though, I assumed them to be some kind of page-local hotkeys, not a Alt-T, G, C, {my key} sequence. Thanks for the info about it though. Might come in handy elsewhere. :-) Regards, Rudy Wieser