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From: ech@cbnewsk.att.com (ned.horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: click at ... with <modifier key> problems
Message-ID: <1991May6.155228.14352@cbnewsk.att.com>
Date: 6 May 91 15:52:28 GMT
References: <11126@bunny.GTE.COM>
Distribution: usa
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <11126@bunny.GTE.COM> mrs2@bunny.gte.com (Mark Scherfling) writes:
 
>Ok, this has got to be a well known bug-a-boo, but I'm lost.

>I have a script which reads:
>   click at the loc of cd btn test with optionKey

>And within cd btn test I have the handler:
>   on mouseUp
>      if the optionKey is down then ....
>
>But the logic never executes.  When I manually click in the button with 
>the optionKey, it works fine.

You might separate the operation from the way it's invoked:

on mouseUp
	if optionKey then doTheOptionThing
	else
		...
	end if
end mouseUp

on doTheOptionThing
	...
end doTheOptionThing

Now you can "send doTheOptionThing to theButton" from anywhere.  Naturally
you'll choose a more meaningful name than 'doTheOptionThing,' unless you're
George Bush...

=Ned Horvath=
ehorvath@attmail.com
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=Ned Horvath=
ehorvath@attmail.com