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From: rang@cpsin3.cps.msu.edu (Anton Rang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Programming menus
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Date: 6 Jun 89 21:49:24 GMT
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In-reply-to: mnkonar@manyjars.SRC.Honeywell.COM's message of 6 Jun 89 19:18:02 GMT

In article <23163@srcsip.UUCP> mnkonar@manyjars.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Murat N. Konar) writes:

   In article <2005@husc6.harvard.edu> siegel@endor.UUCP (Rich Siegel) writes:
   [in reference to a previous posting suggesting that the keyboard input
    mechanism handle MenuKey equivalents]
   >	It's conceivable that you may not want Command-key keystrokes to be
   >equivalenced to menu commands, but instead stand for something else.

   Implementing the keyboard input mechanism as suggested (so that a menu key
   equivalent causes a mouse down in menu bar/menu select returns appropriate
   values) wouldn't prevent using command keys as you suggest.  The menu data
   structures could be searched when a command key press is detected by the 
   system.  If the key is found in a menu, treat it as a menu key equivalent,
   otherwise report the key down event to the application (or DA or whatever).

No, still wouldn't work.  Suppose I have SuitCase II open.  I hit
command-O (or whatever, I think that's one of the command-key
combinations).  That's in the menu bar 'cause it means "Open".  Now
the DA gets very confused because it was running in a modal dialog.
  You could try to hack this by checking the window list, but it gets
awfully complicated....

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