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From: leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Fake a KeyDown as MouseDown in Moda
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Date: 24 Apr 88 19:19:00 GMT
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soe@ames.arpa(Brad Soe) writes in comp.sys.mac.programmer

>I want to know if it is possible to use the filter function 
>passed to ModalDialog to take a keydown event, change it to 
>a mousedown event, and have ModalDialog process this. I have
>a problem where I have two textedit boxes in a dialog. 
>I want the dialog to behave in such a way that if the user
>hits the return key in one textedit box, the cursor  
>automatically goes to the next text box and activates it.  
>I have tried to modify: event.where to a point in the
>rectangle, set event.what = mouseDown, and 
>OrBit(Event.modifiers, 128) (sets the mouse down bit), but
>it does'nt seem to work.  Is there a way to do this?
>
	Although I have not actually tried this, I see no reason why you could not
just change the keydown from a return to a tab and then pass it back to the
the standard filter which would then process it the way you want.  


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