7.1 kCADEventIDAutoKeyDown

kCADEventPhaseDuring

Holding down a key on the keyboard for some time triggers kCADEventPhaseDuring phases of kCADEventIDAutoKeyDown events, through the keyboard’s auto-repeat mechanism. Preference settings in the system software, the keyboard repeat rate and delay until repeat time, determine how many events are generated.

Also see kCADEventIDKeyDown.

IO	Parameter	Type	Description
in	theCADArea	longint	Area ID
in	theEventID	longint	kCADEventIDAutoKeyDown
in	theEventPhase	longint	kCADEventPhaseDuring
in	theEventData1	longint	0
in	theEventData2	longint	0
in	theEventData3	longint	0
in	theEventData4	longint	0
in	theMouseX	real	0.0
in	theMouseY	real	0.0
in	theEventValue1	real	0.0
in	theEventValue2	real	0.0
in	theKeyAsciiValue	integer	ASCII character value of the pressed key
in	theModifiers	longint	Sum of pressed modifier keys, a mask of modifier key constants
in	theTickCount	longint	Tick count of the system software (a tick is a 1/60th of a second)
in/out	theEventResult	longint	Don’t change.

Keyboard events are not generated

• When a %CAD area is not the current object on a 4D form
• For areas of type %CADView and %CADBackground
• For characters entered in the measure pane
• For characters entered in a string-object edit box
• For the handling of menu items through keyboard-equivalents
• For the handling of the Tab, Shift-tab and Return key combinations
• For the handling of the Enter and Command-dot keys
• For the arrow keys keys (they generate kCADEventIDObjTranslate events instead)
• For the delete and backspace keys (they are ignored for auto-key events)
• For the spacebar (it is ignored for auto-key events).