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From: brendan@claris.com (Brendan McCarthy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Shift-Command-Key in Menus
Message-ID: <11220@claris.com>
Date: 31 Aug 90 01:46:38 GMT
References: <12236@imag.imag.fr>
Reply-To: brendan@claris.com (Brendan McCarthy)
Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA
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In article <12236@imag.imag.fr> bordier@imag.fr (Jerome Bordier) writes:
>MacWrite II has Shift-Command-Keys in its Menus (so called "keyboard
>equivalents"). Shift modifier is symbolized by a little up arrow on the
>left of the command (clover) symbol.
>I would like to use this arrow symbol in the menus of my application.
>Anybody know how make to appear this "shift" symbol in menu items ?

Sure, all you have to do is write your own MDEF.  Then you need to rewrite
MenuKey to handle the additional modifier keys.  Remember, your MDEF must
check which system version is running in order to properly space command
key equivilents (2 extra pixels for 6.0.3, I believe).  

Brendan
brendan@claris.com