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From: sirkm@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Greg Anderson)
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Subject: Re: What's wrong with this ModalDialog filterproc?
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Date: 28 Dec 89 01:16:33 GMT
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In article <9418@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
>And so on.  You have an internationalization problem here.  These codes
>are surely not the same under all langauges.

IM I-53 and I-343 (and other places) state that Z, X, C and V _must_
be used for undo, cut, copy and paste.  However, I suppose that this
isn't possible to use these keys in non-roman systems, so you do have
a point.  I've never seen it addressed before, though.

>(If you didn't have an edit menu handy in the menu bar -- for instance,
>in a DA running under an application with an unknown edit menu id --

Unfortunately, this program is a DA.  However, isn't the Edit menu always
the third menu on the menu bar, and the order of the items always Undo,
blank line, cut, copy, paste, clear by convention?  You can get a copy
of the menu list with GetMenuBar, but paging through IM, I am at a loss
as to how one might use this information to step through the menu list
and examine what is there.  All I need to know is the ID of the third menu!
(Frustration.)

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And if I cannot obtain this information, then how, praytell, can my DA
flash the EDIT menu when the user selects undo, cut, copy or paste?
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>then you would have to keep a STR# resource to keep track of the
>appropriate shortcuts for editing.)

This seems like a poor solution to a problem that should have a simple
answer--namely, finding the ID of any arbitrary menu.

Arg.

So, has anyone else out there done anything like this with a DA?
 
>Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

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