Computer keyboard input

[d.healey]

Can we detect any QUERTY keyboard button presses in HISE? I'm thinking mainly of modifier keys like CTRL, SHIFT, and ALT.

[Christoph Hart]

You mean in combination with mouse clicks?

The thing is that modifiers alone don't trigger any callback in JUCE, so you need either another keypress or a mouse event.

What do you want to achieve?

[d.healey]

Yes it would be with a mouse click. So when a control is clicked you could check to see if a key is also held. I use this kind of thing for example if I want a single button to have more than one purpose. Or a recent project I worked on a user could enable multiple articulations by selecting more than one button, they hold CTRL down if they want to select more than one otherwise it just selects one.

[Christoph Hart]

This is a reasonable request. You'll need to roll your own widget from a Panel then, because the other widgets have already some hardcoded modifiers (eg. dragging sliders with Ctrl enables fine tune mode)

[d.healey]

I think I'm getting the hang of the panel now so that shouldn't be an issue

[Christoph Hart]

Alright, I added the modifier keys:

event.isShiftDown
event.isAltDown
event.isCmdDown
event.itCtrlDown

BTW, if you call setValue() with a Panel, the controlCallback isn't executed automatically (to prevent recursive loops). You need to call Panel.changed() to execute the control callback.

[d.healey]

That was quick! just trying out the new build now.