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From: moore@cs.washington.edu (Charles Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: capturing keystrokes and stacks for children
Keywords: keystrokes, children
Message-ID: <10464@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 23 Jan 90 08:23:34 GMT
Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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A friend of mine is trying to capture individual keystrokes in HyperCard
so that he can make his Mac do interesting things (mostly play sounds) 
when his 18-month-old son pounds on the keyboard.  He would like to be
able to program specific keys to do specific things and thus needs a
function like "keyPressed" that he could use in "if" statements like:

put keyPressed into key
if key = "a" then
  play "boing"
else
  if key = "b" then
    ...

If anybody knows of any good way of doing something like this in HyperTalk,
please let me know.  Alternatively, does anybody out there have an XFNC that
performs the function of "keyPressed"?

Finally, are there any stacks out there that are fun for little kids to 
play with?  We'd be particularly interested in anything that makes noise.

Thanks,

Charles Moore