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From: shane@chianti.cc.umich.edu (Shane Looker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Non-function Cmd Keys with DA
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Date: 22 Jul 88 22:33:47 GMT
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I'm completely stumped on this one.  I've written a DA which puts up a menu
which has a number of items.  I can select the About box by hitting Cmd-A
or I can close the DA with Cmd-Q.  I also have Cmd-O to open a window.
(Up to 5 windows right now.)

As soon as I bring up a window (Cmd-O or mouse selection), my Cmd keys go
dead.  I can still use the mouse to select the menu items, and they work,
but no Cmd Keys.

Possibly relevant points.  I am not attaching the first window to the 
Device Control Entry filed for the DA Window.  I had stuffed a dummy window
in there but it made no difference.  (Possibly related bug, I could not make
that window invisible.  I created the window with NewWindow and explicitly  
made it invis.  I also called HideWindow as soon as it made the window.  
Something outside the DA is making the window visible!)

All this is being done in Lightspeed C 3.0.  When I try to debug the DA with
the debugger, it appears that SystemEvent is claiming that it handles the
event (which it should I think), but my DA never gets called with the
menu selection.

The DA behaves the same way if I open it with Suitcase (not under MF), or
if I build it into an application to use with the debugger.
 
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Shane Looker
Looker@um.cc.umich.edu