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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Masking Modified Characters
Message-ID: <1990Aug16.175729.29825@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 16 Aug 90 17:57:29 GMT
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In article <1857@mountn.dec.com> minow@bolt.enet.dec.com.UUCP (Martin Minow) writes:
>In article <3903@husc6.harvard.edu> siegel@endor.UUCP (Rich Siegel) writes:
>>How does one avoid getting option-generated characters when using
>>GetNextEvent?
>>For example, when I type Command-Option-P, I'll an event which tells me I've
>>typed Command-Option-pi, and I'm more interested in what the unmodified 
>>character was. Is there a standard mask for turning modified characters into
>>standard ones, or is there some other hack?
>
[some other hack omitted]

How about looking up the key code in the KCHR (and ignoring the system provided
char code entirely)?

The routine KeyTrans should do it for you.
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