From: "froyd" Newsgroups: alt.games.programming,comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: CTRL key in Allegro problem Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 18:44:04 +1000 Organization: Labyrinth Connections Pty Ltd Lines: 22 Message-ID: <7j06pt$1vv$1@arachne.labyrinth.net.au> References: <7igt3r$kr9$1 AT arachne DOT labyrinth DOT net DOT au> <85DE9BE41EC879E4 DOT 8DB591EEA5BF3EAE DOT EC78DA1DDDE6FA55 AT library-proxy DOT airnews DOT net> <8%h33.509$A4 DOT 16330 AT news020 DOT image DOT dk> <7iktkm$2nb$1 AT arachne DOT labyrinth DOT net DOT au> <375206af DOT 0 AT news DOT cc DOT umr DOT edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: minerva-as85.labyrinth.net.au X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2120.0 f: news.labyrinth.net.au alt.games.programming:5819 comp.os.msdos.djgpp:71146 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com 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 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