Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!eagle!dl1
From: dl1@eagle.ukc.ac.uk (D.Langford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: trapping single keystrokes in HC
Message-ID: <5245@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 15 Jun 88 13:51:39 GMT
Reply-To: dl1@ukc.ac.uk (D.Langford)
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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With apologies for probably missing something blindingly obvious; but
/is/ there a way of grabbing single keypresses (to check them against a
list) so that I can direct the user to different cards? I know I could
easily use a button; but for this particular purpose I don't want to
ask the user to do anything except hitting a few number keys.

I've tried trapping keypresses into an invisible field... flaky, and very
slow. Can HC manage the equivalent of INKEY$ or GET, like my not-until
now-missed old Apple II?

duncan