Problem with my left and right arrow keys not working

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egroup7

I'm have problems with my arrow keys. When playing games or attempting to
move to left or right with my arrow keys they appear to be locked. I get no
error message or prompts. Has anyone experienced this or, can anyone offer a
possible solution?
 
egroup7 said:
I'm have problems with my arrow keys. When playing games or attempting to
move to left or right with my arrow keys they appear to be locked. I get no
error message or prompts. Has anyone experienced this or, can anyone offer a
possible solution?
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Have you by any chance pressed "Scroll Lock"? That has some similar
effects. There should be an indicator on your keyboard if so.
 
Swifty:
Thanks for responding. I tried that earlier with no results. I've also tried
changing out keyboards. The system is used at a daycare for young people to
play games which can lead to a little bit of rough play. Also, I ruled out
bugs since it is not online. I'm leaning towards a coding issue, what do you
think?
 
egroup7 said:
Thanks for responding. I tried that earlier with no results. I've also tried
changing out keyboards. The system is used at a daycare for young people to
play games which can lead to a little bit of rough play. Also, I ruled out
bugs since it is not online. I'm leaning towards a coding issue, what do you
think?
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I'm more or less out of ideas. I presume the keys work with other
applications? If not then perhaps someone has installed some software
(or some malware) that is intercepting the keystrokes.

I've written software that intercepts keystrokes, and the arrow keys are
curious in that they send back two characters, such as E04B or E04D (in
hex) but the up/down keys do the same, as do several others. The only
reason that I mention this is that if something is intercepting
keystrokes, then its likely to go wrong when it encounters these paired
values, especially if it treats them as two separate keystrokes.
 
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