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From: neil@dsl.cis.upenn.edu (Neil Radisch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Writing Fkeys
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Date: 9 Mar 88 06:10:43 GMT
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Reply-To: neil@dsl.cis.upenn.edu.UUCP (Neil Radisch)
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Is there anything strange about writing Fkey code that one should know about.

Using turbo pascal the following code works

	Procedure myfkey;
	begin
	moveto(100,100);
	drawstring('hello');
	sysbeep(5);
	sysbeep(5);
	end;

It gives me the 'hello' and two beeps

HOWEVER:

	Procedure myfkey;
	var
	   dstring:str255;
	begin
	dstring:='hello';
	moveto(100,100);
	drawstring('dstring');
	sysbeep(5);
	sysbeep(5);
	end;

Only gives me two beeps, infact any procedure call I try to use that
needs variables (like SFGetfile) does not respond.
What's the deal (I pretty sure I'm doing the correct 'code massaging' since
 the first example works)


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