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From: brecher@well.UUCP (Steve Brecher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Command Key D.A.s (a message box for the finder?)
Message-ID: <10333@well.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 89 02:55:53 GMT
References: <730078@hpcilzb.HP.COM> <6195@hoptoad.uucp> <13370@cup.portal.com> <6229@hoptoad.uucp> <27486@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
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In article <27486@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu
(David Phillip Oster) writes:
> In article <6229@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
> >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.
> 
> It is not quite that simple. You'll get the command key in the menu,
> because the D.A. has the metacharacters in its name all right.

As I noted in another posting AddResMenu does not interpret metacharacters,
so there will be no command equivalent in the menu; there will just be
metacharacters at the end of the name, i.e., this scheme doesn't work.

> The reason [Suitcase] works is, it is already overrriding most of the
> resource manager, so it just checks for itself, as long as it is checking
> for anything.

Suitcase's and Suitcase II's AddResMenu patch inserts the key equivalent for
the Suitcase [II] DA into the apple menu structure.  Choice of the DA
via the command key is handled entirely by the Menu Manager in normal fashion.
-- 

brecher@well.UUCP (Steve Brecher)