From: "froyd" <fredj AT labyrinth DOT net DOT au>
Newsgroups: alt.games.programming,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: CTRL key in Allegro problem
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 18:44:04 +1000
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I just ran the executable from Windows 95.
John

Jesse Chounard wrote in message <375206af DOT 0 AT news DOT cc DOT umr DOT edu>...
>
>In alt.games.programming Ole Laursen <ole_laursen AT hardworking DOT dk> wrote:
>: You misunderstood me - it was the other guy who had problems with
>: multiple keypresses, that should blame the keyboard, not you. The
>: problems with Ctrl is apparently (as others have said) that Allegro
>: distinguish between the right and the left Ctrl.
>
>It might also be that the program is being started from
>RHIDE with the Ctrl-F9 to run.  (I think it's F9.)
>When Allegro takes over the keyboard, the Ctrl key is
>still down, as it happens really fast, and so odd things
>happen.  Assuming that this is a possiblity, it would
>be really easy to discover if this is the problem by
>using the mouse to open the menu and run the program.
>
>Jesse