Right shift issues on mac?

Game Engine Game Engine Support and Discussion
1

Hello again, I need to check if the right shift key is currently active to change the result of another key press.

For regular keys I was using(example):

		#Keyboard possible inputs
		if self.keyboard.events[events.PKEY] == logic.KX_INPUT_JUST_ACTIVATED:

But when I try RIGHTSHIFTKEY or any other events modifier key nothing happens(I know it because as a test I used a python print).

So how can I achieve what I wanted above? I hope the BGE hasn’t issues with mac keyboards as it has with its mouse.

2

On my computer Windows XP 32 bit the RIGHTSHIFTKEY is working.


import bge
# Just shortening names here
keyboard = bge.logic.keyboard
JUST_ACTIVATED = bge.logic.KX_INPUT_JUST_ACTIVATED
#print (bge.events.RIGHTSHIFTKEY)
#print (keyboard.events)
if keyboard.events[bge.events.RIGHTSHIFTKEY] == JUST_ACTIVATED:
    print("Activate RIGHTSHIFTKEY!")

Print the keyboard.events and look if the value by the number 128 is changing.

3

Ok, I tried:

if self.keyboard.events[128] != 0: print('Shift key being pressed')

Nothing happens when I press the shift key, but if I change it to check for events 98, which is the B key, it does output the message when it is pressed.

4

Maybe it is an issues with mac keyboards.

5

No XD, don’t say that… I think I will make a bug report now

6

Try making a for statement that loops through the events of the keyboard and find which is active, but only activate the script via a keyboard sensor for the rshift key.

e.g


import bge

keyboard = bge.logic.keyboard.events
for event in keyboard:
    if event == 2 or event == 1:
        print(event)
7

I did:

for event in self.keyboard.events:
	if self.keyboard.events[event] != 0:
		print(event)

it printed 129! And if it detected that, then I can setup a provisory workaround for my game. But it recognizes the two keyboard shifts as one event(129), be it right shift or left shift.

8

Ah. That’s an issue

9

Another one to make company to the events.RIGHTSHIFTKEY issue in a mac keyboard