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From: lazarus@BOSCO.BERKELEY.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: FKey / new system bug?
Message-ID: <8801140006.AA03433@ronzoni>
Date: 14 Jan 88 00:06:47 GMT
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Reply-To: ronzoni!lazarus (Andrew J Lazarus)
Organization: UC Berkeley Math Department
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I am having trouble with using FKEYs from dialog boxes.
It seems to date from my switching to the new system, but occurs
with and without Multifinder.

Have a text box active in a dialog box (e.g. Key Caps,
SFPutFile in a word processor, etc.). I use Shift-Cmd-7 for
the Date FKEY. (I put date in my filenames!)
It comes out preceded by the 7. The key down event
for the FKEY itself is NOT swallowed.

(Similar results occur for any FKEY, even ones which produce no text.)

However, no problem if I use Date in a document.

BTW, I wrote an FKEY which brings up its own Modal Dialog.
Can I use any resource # for the DLOG or are there
guidelines similar to DA resources?

andy