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From: nagle@well.sf.ca.us (John Nagle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: HYPERCARD INFORMATION, PLEASE.
Message-ID: <24669@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 9 May 91 07:27:15 GMT
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     Reading the keyboard from HyperTalk can be accomplished by defining
a handler for "keyDown" messages.  Like this.

	on keyDown ch
	...
	end keyDown

This will be called for every key pressed, and "ch" will contain the
value from the key.  It's entirely up to your script to do something
with the input, so putting a "pass keyDown ch" at the end of the
script, so that regular keyboard operations will still work, is good.
Then you can time anything you want without interfering with normal
typing.

					John Nagle