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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: a message box for the finder?
Message-ID: <6229@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 11 Jan 89 02:53:22 GMT
References: <730078@hpcilzb.HP.COM> <6195@hoptoad.uucp> <13370@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <13370@cup.portal.com> ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:
>Yes, a VBL is out for this sort of thing.  A DA would be better, as Tim
>Maroney suggests.  The only problem with this is you don't get to just
>type pretzel-m or some other simple keystrokes to get it.
>
>How about a function key?

FKEYs are a pain to install for most people, but there's certainly
nothing wrong with having an FKEY that does an OpenDeskAcc for those
who want it.

However, you can put a menu shortcut key into a DA.  Just put the magic
menu manager metacharacters into the DA resource name.  Then when the
application does an AddResMenu, the shortcut will appear normally in
the apple menu.  As long as it doesn't conflict with an application
shortcut, it will work just fine.  (Disclaimer: I haven't actually
done this.)
-- 
Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim
"If you vote for clowns, you have no right to complain that only clowns
 make it to the ballot." -- Tim Maroney