[PD] Key-repeat makes keyboard-pianokeys impossible?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

You need to get the lower level events, the key-down and key-up  
events from the System, not just the character stream.  Its very  
doable on all platforms.

.hc

On Jul 17, 2006, at 1:15 PM, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:

> I don't see how it would be possible if, in OSX, repeated key-downs
> are exactly equivalent to pressing and releasing the key over and
> over.
> Maybe there could be a sort of interrupt/hold time option like with
> GUI bangs.  If there is less than a few milliseconds between events
> with the same key number, they don't count.
> -Chuckk
>
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> On 7/17/06, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>>
>> This is a known bug on all platforms, it has to do with the
>> implementation of the [key] object.  It would be nice to have it
>> fixed to provide a proper key-down and key-up message instead of that
>> pulsing.  Any volunteers?
>>
>> .hc
>>
>> On Jul 16, 2006, at 11:54 PM, Luke Iannini (pd) wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all,
>> > I am being ushered to sleep so I have little time to explain  
>> this in
>> > detail, but hopefully that just means you'll all be spared tedious
>> > detail that would obfuscate the issue : ).
>> >
>> > I'm trying to build a simple computer-key piano such as the one in
>> > Apple's GarageBand using the [key] object, and I'd like to be  
>> able to
>> > hold the keys down rather than have single shot.  Key helpfully
>> > provides 0/1 notifiers for keydown and keyup - but OS X's built-in
>> > key-repeat makes it infinitely retrigger the keypress when  
>> held.  The
>> > GarageBand keyboard does not do this, so I was hoping someone might
>> > have some ideas on getting around this so I don't have to pull  
>> out my
>> > (rather unportable) midi-controller when I'm patching on the road.
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
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