Sender: Jesse Chounard <jessec AT saucer DOT cc DOT umr DOT edu>
From: Jesse Chounard <jessec AT umr DOT edu>
Subject: Re: CTRL key in Allegro problem
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Date: 31 May 99 03:49:03 GMT
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In alt.games.programming Ole Laursen <ole_laursen AT hardworking DOT dk> wrote:
: You misunderstood me - it was the other guy who had problems with
: multiple keypresses, that should blame the keyboard, not you. The
: problems with Ctrl is apparently (as others have said) that Allegro
: distinguish between the right and the left Ctrl.

It might also be that the program is being started from
RHIDE with the Ctrl-F9 to run.  (I think it's F9.)
When Allegro takes over the keyboard, the Ctrl key is
still down, as it happens really fast, and so odd things
happen.  Assuming that this is a possiblity, it would
be really easy to discover if this is the problem by
using the mouse to open the menu and run the program.

Jesse