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Inside Macintosh: Macintosh Toolbox Essentials /

Chapter 2 - Event Manager / Event Manager Reference

Reading the Keyboard
The Event Manager reports keyboard events one at a time at your application's request when you use the WaitNextEvent, EventAvail, or GetNextEvent function. In addition to getting keyboard events when the user presses or releases a key, you can directly read the keyboard (and keypad) at any time using the GetKeys procedure.
You can also use the KeyTranslate function to convert virtual key codes to character code values using a specified 'KCHR' resource.

Subtopics

GetKeys

KeyTranslate

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