onKeyDown and onKeyUp event firing

Developers Ruby API
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With SketchUp’s latest releases a problem was introduced that appears to affect only the PC version of SketchUp. The event onKeyDown is supposed to fire once each time a user presses a keyboard key. In the following releases it fires twice:

PC – 23.1.340 64-bit
Mac – 23.1.341 64-bit – Appears to not be an issue with the Mac implementation.

I attempted a work-around by using onKeyUp. But then the Alt key only fires with every other use of the Alt key. The Mac seems to work fine. I have spent a lot of time searching the web and found no mention of this problem. Has anyone else noticed it?

Joe…

2

If you do not find an issue logged in the official API issue tracker, please open one for this specific problem.

As I recall, at one time in the past, there were old issues on the Mac with the onKeyDown callback.

3

I can’t reproduce the problem with this snippet on W11 (SU 23.1.340):

class MyTool
  def onKeyDown(key, repeat, flags, view)
    puts "onKeyDown: key = #{key}"
    puts "        repeat = #{repeat}"
    puts "         flags = #{flags}"
    puts "          view = #{view}"
  end
  def onKeyUp(key, repeat, flags, view)
    puts "onKeyUp: key = #{key}"
    puts "      repeat = #{repeat}"
    puts "       flags = #{flags}"
    puts "        view = #{view}"
  end
end

my_tool = MyTool.new
Sketchup.active_model.select_tool(my_tool)
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Perhaps this is more about how Windows uses the ALT key for activating the menu bar ?