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From: singer@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: CAPPS' (was:Text editor help)
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Date: 13 Oct 88 14:36:59 GMT
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In article <2500@rti.UUCP> rcb@rti.UUCP (Random) writes:

>CAPPS' is a wonderful product. I am going to use it in my current program.
>However, I have one small complaint. It does not support the arrow keys.
>I'm going to have to try to fake this with my function that handles
>typing. Oh well, nothings perfect.

	It's not within the scope of PE to support arrow keys, since the 
semantics of an arrow key may vary from application to application, and 
PE is useful for other things besides pure text editing (for example, the
LightspeedC debugger makes heavy use of PE routines).

	It's much simpler, from the developer's point of view, to have the
application support arrow keys, rather than the library. Look at the PEdit
sample application to see how it's done.

		--Rich


Rich Siegel
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THINK Technologies Division, Symantec Corp.
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