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Hans Schueren

keyboard event

Hello again ,

could someone tell me the syntax for a keybord input ?

I want to write a method which ask for keyboard input.

Is this possible.

Hans

Sven Van Caekenberghe-2

Re: keyboard event

> On 27 Oct 2014, at 21:08, Hans Schueren <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Hello again ,
>
>
> could someone tell me the syntax for a keybord input ?
>
> I want to write a method which ask for keyboard input.
>
> Is this possible.
>
>
> Hans

The easiest way that is available is like this:

UIManager default request: 'What is your name ?'.

UIManager default confirm: 'Do you like Pharo ?'.

Try inspecting each expression separately.

HTH,

Sven

kilon.alios

Re: keyboard event

In reply to this post by Hans Schueren

yes again if you browse Morphic you will find the event-handling protocol

two methods I tested is handleKeyStroke: that should return true so that your morph handles key strokes events and then you need to also override keyStroke: itself to do whatever you want to do, from there on you can check the KeyboardEvent class to see what the event that is passed to keyStroke: as argument is. for example

keyStroke: event

event inspect.

(event keyCharacter = $h) ifTrue: [ Transcript open. Transcript show: 'Hello User and welcome to Pharo :) ']

the above assume you have created a class that is subclass of Morph and you override the methods mentioned in that class.

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Hans Schueren <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hello again ,

could someone tell me the syntax for a keybord input ?

I want to write a method which ask for keyboard input.

Is this possible.

Hans