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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Keyboard Problem - Completor Characters
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Date: 5 Feb 89 01:53:34 GMT
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The original posting asked, how do you turn off "dead keys", so
<Option>-e, will return immediately, instead of waiting for the next
keystroke.

I did this recently.
(1) Do a sysenvirons. If you are running on an old macintosh, on a system
more primitive than System 5.0, there is an integer flag, 2 bytes into the
KMAP procedure resource, to disable dead keys.
(2) if you are on a newer system than that, use the sript manager calls
documented in inside mac vol 5. (even on a macplus) to install a new roman
keybaord map. You can create an appropriate map\by using resEdit on a
ADB equipped machine to produce a new KCHR resource that has no dead keys.
Your program should restore the keyboard state
(a) whenever it is suspended in multi-finder (i.e., set the multi-finder
aware bit in your size resource and check for its events.)
(b) whenever it does not have an active window. (for example, a d.a.
might be on top.)


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