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RE: [ECS] Keyboard Event Michael David Sun, 20 Jun 1999 20:22:33 -0400

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Hi Kevin!

You can't set Keyboard-Key to "active"; this can only be done by ECS.

When any key is pressed on the keyboard, the state of Keyboard-Key changes
to "active" momentarily.  This can be used for ECS to "know" when someone is
at the keyboard.  The most common use for this item is for a "sign of life"
event, where ECS looks at many of it's various interfaces to see if us
humans are present.

Why would you want to set Keyboard-Key to active anyway?

Cheers!

Michael David
michael@michaeldavid.com


-----Original Message-----
From:	Kevin Keast [mailto:libertyc@prodigy.net]
Sent:	Saturday, June 19, 1999 11:27 AM
To:	ECS
Subject:	[ECS] Keyboard Event

Would anyone know why I can't set the state of a keyboard-event to ACTIVE?

I am in the event editor and try to set the state of a keyboard event to
active state.  I don't even have the "active" state in the pull down menu.
If I force it I get an error like illegal state name.

I can, however set the item to the active state in the group editor and it
works fine.

I am using a fairly recent version of ECS: 4.0.025

Thanks in advance


Kevin

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