RE: keys and procedure

["Alain Tougas" <alain@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Try this:

to test
if key? [make "key readchar runproc]
test
end

to runproc
fd 10
end

Create a button on the page and type TEST as the instruction. You must do
that because READCHAR will only work if you click on the page. If you type
TEST in the Command Center, then the last click is NOT on the page and the
procedure will not work. Type anything you want in the RUNPROC procedure..
You need the instruction MAKE "KEY READCHAR because when there is a key
pressed, MW has to "eat" it otherwise the primitive KEY? will always report
TRUE. Once the key has been read (or eaten), KEY? returns FALSE.

Alain
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  A student would like to know if there is a way to  hold down a key to keep
a procedure  running and when the key is released the procedure stops.