On Aug 25, 2007, at 2:48 AM, Thomas Worthington wrote:


I have a patch in the system for this and I did have to put in a central  

"wrangling point", which is basically a very simple event snooper which  

sets the Alt flag if the <user selectable (defaults to 1) mod flag> is  

set. This user setting is a new option in the preferences.xml file so can  

be set differently by each user for their keyboard rather than being  

hardcoded in the way the current Alt usage is.


Thanks.

The main question, though, is how the different key modifiers work at different points on different platforms.

Checks probably should be done on Linux, Windows and OS X. Also I know that we might want to check remote X11 and VNC behavior.

Those last three got in the way of certain things in the past, and hid some problems that would show on "normal" platforms.