joel@gould9.UUCP (Joel West) (12/25/86)
I'd appreciate any examples of FKEY's that readers are aware of,
beyond those provided by Apple.
I'm basically interested in how they've been used, and perhaps even
why. Are they just cheap DA's? Or for Apple-like control operations,
such as screen to clipboard? Do they leave windows open? etc. etc.
Of course, if you have a pd/shareware FKEY you particularly like,
I'd be glad to try it.
Also, as I recall, the bible on FKEY's is MacUser 1/86. Sad to say,
MacTutor has ignored this issue.
Season's greetings appropriate to your creed and faith.
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Joel West MCI Mail: 282-8879
Western Software Technology, POB 2733, Vista, CA 92083
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joel%gould9.uucp@NOSC.ARPAmrh@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU (Marc Hannah) (12/29/86)
In article <948@gould9.UUCP>, joel@gould9.UUCP (Joel West) writes: > I'd appreciate any examples of FKEY's that readers are aware of, > beyond those provided by Apple. > > I'm basically interested in how they've been used, and perhaps even > why. Are they just cheap DA's? Or for Apple-like control operations, > Joel West MCI Mail: 282-8879 I have seen a number of FKEYs and fancy manager programs. The manager programs allow you to select FKEYS from a menu or even select a spot on the screen where the cursor lets you select from a popup menu of all the installed FKEYS and others in the proper format on your system. While lots of nice programs to make using FKEYs easier exist, I haven't seen fkeys which do powerful things, they are mostly little utilities that were initially DAs but people write them as FKEYs. My personal opinion is that FKEYs are at a disadvantage compared to DAs since DAs can install resources into the system file and access them according to their driver number (via Apple's resource renumbering scheme) while such a scheme is not supported by FKEYS (although you could hard wire resources if you were desperate). David Gelphman BITNET address: DAVEG@SLACVM Bin #88 SLAC ARPANET address: DAVEG@SLACVM.BITNET Stanford, Calif. 94305 UUCP address: ...psuvax1!daveg%slacvm.bitnet 415-854-3300 x2538 usual disclaimer #432 applies: my employer apologies for the fact that I have access to this net.