[wingide-users] No shift key in WingIDE

[Wingware Support]

Dan-Erik Lindberg wrote:
> I'm using the latest 4.0 beta (Version 4.0.0-b3).
>
> For some reason, I can't use shift, ctrl or alt within WingIDE. It is only within the IDE that it isn't working, and it applies any time the IDE is open and the active window.
>
> For example: If I try to write ( I only get 8
> (I'm using swedish keyboard layout, so the american equivalent would be *)
>
> Another example: If I try to copy something with ctrl-c the text I am trying to copy will instead be overwritten with a c.
>
> I've tried going into Preferences and reverting to factory defaults, as I thought it may be something to do with keyboard personalities. I've also tried changing to a different keyboard personality, but it didn't make the problem go away.
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> As you can imagine, it is rather frustrating to write code without being able to write for example () or [] or even =... So I'd appreciate some help.
>
> I was able to use shift and ctrl and alt after installation of WingIDE. Then I installed python(x,y) (a scientific distribution of python which I found easy to use because it bundles Qt and other packages with python). And I believe it is after this installation that shift, ctrl, alt stopped working. Before installing python(x,y) I had python 3.1 installed, and I then changed the python shell to use python 2.6.5 that is bundled with python(x,y). But I don't understand how this could have an effect on my shift, ctrl and alt keys in WingIDE...
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> Should I just uninstall/reinstall everything? I haven't done that yet, because I would prefer to understand what went wrong so I can avoid it in the future.
>   

Wing uses its own private Python interpreter so installing other 
versions of Python really shouldn't affect it.

What OS are you on?  If you're on OS X, I wonder if an OS X update 
caused this.  If so, installing the latest XQuartz will probably fix 
it.  You need to reinstall xquartz after each OS X update, which is 
somewhat annoying.

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Stephan Deibel
Wingware | Python IDE
Advancing Software Development

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