Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!apple.com!rmh
From: rmh@apple.com (Rick Holzgrafe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Misc Easy HC Questions
Message-ID: <10223@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 13 Sep 90 23:18:38 GMT
Sender: usenet@Apple.COM
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
Lines: 29
References:<11792@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <10164@goofy.Apple.COM> <10179@goofy.Apple.COM> <16194@unix.SRI.COM>

In article <16194@unix.SRI.COM> mxmora@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora) writes:
> ATP is going to come and revoke your programming license for using a 
hardcoded
> number for the double click time interval.

I just KNEW somebody would call me on that. I KNEW it, I KNEW it, I
KNEW IT!!!! (stomp, stomp, stomp, sulk... :-)

> Hypercard already breaks enough
> Human Interface rules without the help from crazy DTS engineers. :-)

I am not a crazy DTS engineer. I am a crazy development engineer. (And 
FIERCELY proud of it, sirrah!)

> Included is a XFCN that gets the correct double click time from the 
parameter
> ram.

Ahhh! Many thanks. The correct solution. In truth, I used a constant
for want of any (quick simple) way to get the double-click time
into a script... and here are my prayers answered: somebody else did
the work!

==========================================================================
Rick Holzgrafe              |    {sun,voder,nsc,mtxinu,dual}!apple!rmh
Software Engineer           | AppleLink HOLZGRAFE1          rmh@apple.com
Apple Computer, Inc.        |  "All opinions expressed are mine, and do
20525 Mariani Ave. MS: 3-PK |    not necessarily represent those of my
Cupertino, CA 95014         |        employer, Apple Computer Inc."