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From: cks@radio.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: One more suggestion...
Message-ID: <1026@radio.toronto.edu>
Date: 24 Feb 88 06:56:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: radio.1026
Posted: Wed Feb 24 01:56:27 1988
References: <8802210122.AA12682@jade.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: cks@radio.UUCP (Chris Siebenmann)
Organization: Newsaholics Anonymous
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Summary: Only so many Intuition message classes

In article <8802210122.AA12682@jade.berkeley.edu> FATQW@USU.BITNET writes:
>Make a new Intuition IDCMP class - HELPKEY.  If it's enabled, and the user
>presses the HELP key, it sends this class rather than RAWKEY.  This way we
>won't have to worry about RAWKEY just to see if the user pressed HELP.

 I would argue against this because it does something that's already
easy to do (check for RAWKEY code == 0x5f) and because there are only
31 Intuition message classes possible, and I'd like to preserve as
many as possible for future message classes. HELPKEY just doesn't seem
important enough (this assumes that the HELP key is guaranteed to
generate code 0x5f; if it isn't, then HELPKEY is appropriate).

[There are only 31 because Intuition reserves bit 31 for internal use.]
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