Quoth Lorenzo, on 12/07/09 14:46:

Hi all,

I'm a little confused by the behaviour of the [key] and [keyup] objects.
What I'd expect is that they 'bang' and output the number only and only when a key is pressed (key) or depressed (keyup), while it looks like while a key is kept pressed they go on banging. Also a [keyup] seems to bang even when a key is 'down'.
This also poses somewhat a problem with keyboard 'poliphony' say I keep a key pressed while also pressing other[s].

Is my expectation simply wrong? I noticed that the behaviour is different when pressing keys like SHIFT, CTRL etc.
Also I see from the help this is system dependent, I see this on Linux (ubuntu 9,04 - Pd 0.41.4-extended-rc1)

Thanks,
Lorenzo

Hi Lorenzo,

[key] and [keyup] are dependant on keyboard settings in your OS. In Ubuntu 9.04 you can turn off Repeat Keys under System/Preferences/Keyboard. In windows I think you can slow the key repeat rate down, but not disable it completely. I don't know about Mac OS.

James