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Subject: Re: I was just wondering...
Message-ID: <2827@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Nov-87 12:23:05 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 19 12:23:05 1987
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in article <1388@weber.munsell.UUCP>, klm@munsell.UUCP (Kevin [Being Weird Isn't Enough] McBride) says:
> Keywords: technical inquiry
> 4)  How do you specify a non-<Right Amiga> Hot Key in your menu?  A couple
>     of other programs I've seen use these.  They don't have an 'image' of
>     the appropriate key, just plain text.  Is this done by kludging the
>     text in your menu structure and then using RAWKEYS on the window to
>     intercept everything?

Yes, or VANILLAKEY.

> While I'm at it, I've got another menu oriented question.  I have a piece of
> commercial software that I want to 'enhance' by way of adding an unrelated
> feature.  If I had the source code for this beast, I'd just rewrite it.  I
> considered writing to the author and asking him to do it, but I see no hope
> in that because what I want to do is really off the wall.  A bona-fide hack.

Gulp.

> Using the program 'menutext' that came around here a while back (6 months?)
> I intend to change the text of a menu item for a feature that I never use in
> this program.  I then want to write a program that (kind of like MonIDCMP)
> that will intercept all messages to the program's IDCMP port and, if the 
> message is a menu select on 'my' menu item, will perform 'my' function.  All 
> other messages will be passed on, unscathed, to the victim program.  Well, 
> almost.  When I intercept a CLOSEWINDOW message, I'm going to set everything 
> back to normal and de-allocate the UserData stuff, before I pass the message 
> along and let the program go it's merry way.
> 
> Does this sound like a reasonable thing to do?  Is it possible to do this?
> Remember this is just a hack, I'm not necessarily going to subject the
> rest of the world to my depravity.  I mean, if I saw *real* commercial
> possibilities for my, ahem, 'feature', I'd damn sure call up the guy who
> wrote this program and try to talk him into it.  Right now, I'm just doing
> it for kicks.  Sort of.

Sounds possible, and if implemented cleanly, shouldn't affect the program
in question.  I hope your program will know how to disappear if he quits
the program through a menu action, i.e., you'll be checking for that one.

> Thanks in advance for any info that will help me advance the cause of
> bizarre hacks.
> Kevin McBride, the guy in the brace //       | It's the end of the world
> Eikonix - A Kodak Co.              //        |   as we know it,
> Billerica, MA                  \\ //  Amiga  | 
> {encore,adelie}!munsell!klm     \X/   Rules! | And I feel fine...

	Paul.