Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!jkc
From: jkc@Apple.COM (John Kevin Calhoun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: HC incompatible with old keyboards?
Message-ID: <46142@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 30 Oct 90 19:53:46 GMT
References: <1990Oct30.031445.10626@sics.se>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <1990Oct30.031445.10626@sics.se> ollef@sics.se,dan@sics.se
(Olle Furberg) writes:
>
>  I've tried to run HC together with the oldest keyboard for the Macintosh
>(the small one without the numerical keyboard). This type of keyboard works
>fine with all programs but HC!
>
>  When you enter text into a field from that keyboard, pushing the space-key
>sends an enterKey message to the fld, and the field is closed.  The result of
>this bug (?) is thatalltextinfieldslooklikethis:noispace, unless you use
>clipboard to paste a " " between every word.

The problem occurs only when you use the old 59-key international keyboard.
It doesn't occur with the old 58-key U.S. keyboard.  (If you look at Inside
Mac, Volume I, pp. 250-251, you'll see one of the reasons why.)

Fortunately, the world's leading expert on HyperCard's translation of
keypresses into operations is Martin Gannholm, who's looking into this
problem even as I write.

Kevin Calhoun
HyperCard Engineer
Apple Computer, Inc.