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From: darin@tmq.UUCP (Darin Adler)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Re: Megaroids problems (editing menus)
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Date: Mon, 27-May-85 17:38:58 EDT
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> >There is no reason to expect to be able to attach keyboard equivalents to
> >arbitrary menu items.  If a keyboard equivalent exists for an item, then you
> >will likely be able to change it to a different key, but if no key binding
> >exists for an item, then there is no assurance that there is code to handle
> >such a binding.
> 
> The way the command key code is usually written, if the program will
> support ANY command key, it will support them all, and you can add what you
> want with the resource editor (assuming the menus are in resources, of
> course). If the program doesn't support any command keys, then chances are
> that the code isn't there and even if you do add them to the menu's they'll
> be ignored. That is a silly thing to do, since the code involved is rather
> trivial...
> 

This "silly thing" is done by MacWrite (at least a bit).  When a document is
not open, no keyboard equivalents work (in the File menu).  This means, for
example, that adding a Q for Quit will not work.  This is true (at least) in
versions 2.2 and 4.5 .  (Quite annoying :-)

Darin Adler
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