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From: GFX@PSUVM.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: what was the last key hit?
Message-ID: <73361GFX@PSUVM>
Date: 25 Feb 89 20:53:14 GMT
References: <2460@ilium.cs.swarthmore.edu> <735@internal.Apple.COM>
Organization: Penn State University - Center for Academic Computing
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In article <735@internal.Apple.COM>, casseres@Apple.COM (David Casseres) says:

>the Idle handler doesn't get called often enough to
>guarantee that I catch all the characters, and in fact it's easy to type
>fast enough that this is a problem.

Can't agree more.  It makes Inkey() and TrapReturn unreliable.  Any
suggestion out there?  I would be very happy to hear about a way to
capture reliably <RETURN> keys typed in a field.  My problem is that
I have a column of fields used to input the parameters for some kind
of operation.  I would like the <RETURN> key to behave as if it were
a <TAB> key.  TrapReturn catches some, but not nearly all of them.
Stephane