Escape key not firing on child window

Targets macOS
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I have a problem with a window’s keydown event not intercepting the Escape Key. I use it here to close the window. I thought it was because it was a modal window, so I eliminated that. The code works fine on a PC.

I’m not sure what else could be causing this. I don’t have any other keydown event.
The focus is on a texture, but the key works on a PC so, I don’t know what is happening.

Suggestions

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I added to the TextArea a KeyDown event to make sure the Escape key was being honored. The TextArea did read the Escape key but the return didn’t go anywhere. It ended there.

Yes I did restart my Mac and even did Option-R-Command-P just in case

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Sure you have Return true in the keydown event?

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Yes. And in just in case the world is crazy, I tried Return False. It didn’t get to the window’s KeyDown.

Edit. Oops. misread my code for my previous edit

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How are you detecting the escape key?

I seem to recall that escape on the Mac is ASCII 27

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This is the first line in that window’s keyDown event.
If (Key = String.ChrByte(13) Or Key = String.ChrByte(03) Or key = String.ChrByte(27)) And Changed = False Then//Chrb(27) = escape

This line’s purpose is to close the window

I removed the other Keydown event, since I knew it wasn’t getting here.

At one point I had this as an explicit window. I also had it as Modal, but decided against it in order to have a menu. Menues if I remember right don’t go with Modal windows.

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This works for me, providing a text field doesn’t have the focus.

select case ASC( key )
case kASCEscape // --- This is a constant defined in OAK2020
  self.close
  
end select

Edit: Alternatively, drag a cancel button out on to the window, and position it out of frame. This works, even if the text field has focus.

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Grumble. I’m sure the text area has the focus. I tried the cancel button with its own Keydown and it didn’t work. I think I’ll put the event in the text area and just close it from there.

Thanks also for the idea of a button off of screen. I had always disabled them, but now I might make them work.

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