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From: fwb@pollux.tmc.edu (Fred Brehm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Why no 'case' statement in Hypertalk?  Suggestions?
Message-ID: <62676@siemens.siemens.com>
Date: 6 Jun 91 13:33:40 GMT
References: <1991Jun4.234844.1280@cognet.ucla.edu>
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In article <1991Jun4.234844.1280@cognet.ucla.edu> earl@cogdev.cognet.ucla.edu (Earl Williams) writes:
>Is there really no 'case' statement in Hypertalk, or am I missing its
>equivalent? 

The equivalent is "else if"

> ... For simple keypress trapping, I'd like to do something like
>the following:
>
>on keyDown key
>  case
>    key = 'a' then do this else
>    key = 'b' then do that else
>    key = 'c' then do the other
>  end
>end keyDown

on keyDown key
    if key = 'a' then do this
    else if key = 'b' then do that
    else if key = 'c' then do the other
    end if
end keyDown

-- 
Frederic W. Brehm	Siemens Corporate Research	Princeton, NJ
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