Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!ucbvax!agate!earthquake.Berkeley.EDU!vincelee From: vincelee@earthquake.Berkeley.EDU (Vincent H. Lee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Startup Options Message-ID: <1990Sep15.071337.19959@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 15 Sep 90 07:13:37 GMT References: <90255.205037JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator) Reply-To: vincelee@earthquake.Berkeley.EDU (Vincent H. Lee) Organization: ucb Lines: 21 In article <90255.205037JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT) writes: >I'm looking for a program that I could call from my startup sequence >that would check the status of a certain mouse button or keyboard key >and would take action if the given button or key were depressed. > >My goal is to set up my 2000 so I can hold down a button or key and >have it go straight into a certain mode (such as A-Max or whatever) >if I hold that button down, but if I do nothing, it will go to workbench >by default. > > > Thanks, > > Kurt There's a PD program called Startup which does something similar--It brings up a window with 5 gadgets which you can select to execute 5 different startup sequences, or it will timeout to a default after a settable number of secs have passed. -Vince