"SPACE" bar doesn't work

[Juan Carlos]

Yes, the "SPACE" bar in OnKeyDown doesn't wotk under Windows and neither undert AmigaOS4 but other key as 'BACKSPACE’ yes and the others keys as the capital letters, ESC key but not "SPACE" why?

[airsoftsoftwair]

You must look for " " instead of "SPACE", e.g.

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Switch msg.action
Case "OnKeyDown":
  If msg.key = " " Then NPrint("Space pressed")
EndSwitch

[Juan Carlos]

You must look for " " instead of "SPACE", e.g.

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Switch msg.action
Case "OnKeyDown":
  If msg.key = " " Then NPrint("Space pressed")
EndSwitch

Anda, I'm surprised because I think that is "SPACE" not " " this is my mistake, thinking as a leeter name, thanks Andreas but in the guide and manual you have specify this case to avoid the mistake of to think in bar name.

[airsoftsoftwair]

It's left as an exercise for the reader

[djrikki]

All joking aside, its not so amusing for TAB which you have to type:

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"        "

- yes 8 spaces

and return is "\n" - obvious to me, but maybe not for others. Shame TAB and SPACE keys don't just work as documented as it tooks me ages to discover the real solution!

[djrikki]

Here's one for you Andreas:

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Function afunction(msg)
Switch msg.action
      Local key = UpperStr(msg.key)
EndSwitch
EndFunction

How will HW handle /n and other relevant char codes that there might be?

[airsoftsoftwair]

Shame TAB and SPACE keys don't just work as documented as it tooks me ages to discover the real solution!

Where is it documented that Hollywood returns "TAB" and "SPACE" for these keys?

There's a rationale behind the behaviour. The idea is that you can do things like this:

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Switch msg.action
Case "OnKeyDown":
  Print(msg.key)
EndSwitch

If "SPACE" or "TAB" were returned, you'd have to filter the key and replace it with " " or " " respectively in order to get a correct Print() output. Otherwise it would look like this: "HelloSPACEWorldTABHowSPACEareTAByouSPACEtoday?" ... That's why Hollywood returns all keys that represent printable characters in a ready-to-use format.

[Tuxedo]

I "discovered" the " " simply doing

DebugPrint(msg.key)

simple and fast to get the needed thing