Catch Ctrl+Alt+<letter>

[Paul Gorodyansky]

Hi,

Question about
event.altKey
event.ctrlKey
event.shiftKey


If I need to catch when a user does say Ctrl+Alt+G -
somehow event.altKey is not working, i.e.:


a) I press Shift+K and this works:


if (evt.shiftKey)
{
alert("******** ****** Shift");
....
}

b) I press Ctrl+K and this works:

if (evt.ctrlKey)
{
alert("******** ***** Ctrl");
.........
}

c) But when I press Ctrl+Alt+K - nothing:

if (evt.ctrlKey && evt.altKey )
{
alert("******** ********** CTRL+Alt");
...
}


Anyone knows why?


--
Regards,
Paul

[Janwillem Borleffs]

Re: Catch Ctrl+Alt+&lt;le tter&gt;

Paul Gorodyansky wrote:[color=blue]
> c) But when I press Ctrl+Alt+K - nothing:
>
> if (evt.ctrlKey && evt.altKey )
> {
> alert("******** ********** CTRL+Alt");
> ...
> }
>
>
> Anyone knows why?
>[/color]

Be shure to attach it to an onkeydown event.


JW

[Paul Gorodyansky]

Re: Catch Ctrl+Alt+&lt;le tter&gt;

Janwillem Borleffs wrote:[color=blue]
>
> Paul Gorodyansky wrote:[color=green]
> > c) But when I press Ctrl+Alt+K - nothing:
> >
> > if (evt.ctrlKey && evt.altKey )
> > {
> > alert("******** ********** CTRL+Alt");
> > ...
> > }
> >
> >
> > Anyone knows why?
> >[/color]
>
> Be shure to attach it to an onkeydown event.
>[/color]

It is attached to onkeypress event. Does it matter?

I wrote a code based on the example by Martin Honnen -

http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/1661

So I have
<textarea ... onkeypress='ret urn changeKey(this, event, fName)'>

and in that changeKey() function I am trying to use
Ctrl+Alt+letter thing

Again, I can catch event.ctrlKey and event.shiftKey but not

event.altkey
and not
(event.ctrlKey && event.altkey)

--
Regards,
Paul

[Janwillem Borleffs]

Re: Catch Ctrl+Alt+&lt;le tter&gt;

Paul Gorodyansky wrote:[color=blue]
> It is attached to onkeypress event. Does it matter?
>[/color]

Yes it does, attach it to the onkeydown event as I said before.
[color=blue]
> Again, I can catch event.ctrlKey and event.shiftKey but not
>
> event.altkey
>[/color]

It's not "event.altk ey" but "event.altK ey".


JW

[Paul Gorodyansky]

Re: Catch Ctrl+Alt+&lt;le tter&gt;

Janwillem Borleffs wrote:[color=blue]
>
> Paul Gorodyansky wrote:[color=green]
> > It is attached to onkeypress event. Does it matter?
> >[/color]
>
> Yes it does, attach it to the onkeydown event as I said before.
>[color=green]
> > Again, I can catch event.ctrlKey and event.shiftKey but not
> >
> > event.altkey
> >[/color]
>
> It's not "event.altk ey" but "event.altK ey".
>
> JW[/color]

Hi,

I was a typo _here_, not in the code - in the code it's correct

Thanks,
Paul

[Paul]

Re: Catch Ctrl+Alt+&lt;le tter&gt;

Anyone?


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Regards
Paul

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Re: Catch Ctrl+Alt+&lt;le tter&gt;

Paul wrote:
[color=blue]
> Anyone?[/color]

Yes.


PointedEars