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From: unocc07@zeus.unl.edu (Dave Caplinger, Microcomputer Specialist)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Eject Disk button?
Message-ID: <1275@zeus.unl.edu>
Date: 2 May 89 07:02:16 GMT
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I've designed a "mini-finder" replacement (haven't we all) for our public
user rooms here at UNO.  We've been using it for about a year now with no
problems whatsoever, and right after we put it on our Macs, I forgot it
and ignored it.  :-)

Now, we are upgrading to an AppleShare network and I want to re-do the
front end to ease the transition for the users.  (So I'm watching with
interest the discussion about AppleTalk from HC)  But this time around,
I'd like to add an "eject disk" button, which I'm ashamed to admit that
the first version didn't have.  I tried to use the doFKEY XCMD, but it
won't call built-in FKEYS (like cmd-shift-1 to eject the disk).

Does anyone have an XCMD to do this, or something else?  If I really must,
I will have to break down and make HC run a QuicKeys key to do it.  I
would write an XCMD myself, but the only Mac language I have access to is
LightSpeed Pascal 1.1p (or some such) and Aztec C.  I don't have the time
to learn either (I don't mean to sound like a jerk; I /wan't/ to learn
it..) and buy hundreds of dollars worth of Inside Macintosh-type manuals,
books, toolkits, etc. :-)

-/ Dave Caplinger /------------------+-----------------------------------
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