Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 UW 5/3/83; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!info-mac From: info-mac@uw-beaver (info-mac) Newsgroups: fa.info-mac Subject: re: keyboard Message-ID: <1529@uw-beaver> Date: Tue, 21-Aug-84 05:23:05 EDT Article-I.D.: uw-beaver>.1529 Posted: Tue Aug 21 05:23:05 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Aug-84 01:28:19 EDT Sender: daemon@uw-beave Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 6 From: Thomas.Newton@cmu-cs-spice.arpa The Shift, Option, Clover, and Caps Lock keys are not treated the same way as other keys. Rather, they are treated as modifiers. If you use MacPaint it becomes fairly obvious that they can act as modifiers to the mouse button, and I believe (though I'm not sure) that each event record contains the state of the modifier keys at the time the event was generated.