Ability to capture modifier keys (e.g. alt)

I’m messing with MenuBar et.al. and am curious about something: Why does MapKey (and the rest of the call chain) filter out letting ProcessKey see just modifier key events?

For example, if we wanted MenuBar to highlight when a user presses alt like it does on Windows, we’d want it to be able to ‘see’ that the user has just pressed alt.

Would the world end if MapKey was modified to pass through shift-modifier keys?

[tig]

I just did a test where I modified MapKey in WindowsDriver.cs to pass just alt keypresses on.

It demonstrated pretty clearly that a new API will be required because existing ProcessKey implementations get confused.

I would suggest

public virtual bool KeyDown(KeyEvent keyEvent)

and

public virtual bool KeyUp (KeyEvent keyEvent)

Ala Windows’ WM_KEYDOWN/WM_KEYUP.

Thoughts?

[tig]

Done. Closing.