day@grand.UUCP (Dave Yost) (02/13/89)
My baby loves to play with the keyboard and the mouse. She needs something really simple to play with on the mac where something interesting happens if she mouses over this or that thingy on the screen or if she types a space or a return or other characters. Anyone have anything? --dave yost
casseres@Apple.COM (David Casseres) (02/15/89)
In article <479@grand.UUCP> day@grand.UUCP (Dave Yost) writes: >My baby loves to play with the keyboard and the mouse. >She needs something really simple to play with on the mac >where something interesting happens if she mouses over >this or that thingy on the screen or if she types a space >or a return or other characters. I've been wanting to do something like this but haven't been able to figure out how to intercept keystrokes. Anyone have a clue? David Casseres
jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto) (02/15/89)
In article <671@internal.Apple.COM> casseres@Apple.COM (David Casseres) writes: >In article <479@grand.UUCP> day@grand.UUCP (Dave Yost) writes: >>My baby loves to play with the keyboard and the mouse. >>She needs something really simple to play with on the mac > >I've been wanting to do something like this but haven't been able to >figure out how to intercept keystrokes. Anyone have a clue? One way to do this kind of thing involves using the blindTyping property (so anything the kid types goes into the message box) along with an idle handler to check the contents of the message box (and beep, play a song, flash, or do some other child-pleasing thing if the box contains lets say a space). Of course,you take a performance hit from the idle handler, but for a child's play stack of this type, I wouldn't think that would make much difference. on openStack global msgLoc, theLevel set the blindTyping to true put the userLevel into theLevel set the userLevel to 1 put the loc of the message box into msgLoc set the loc of the message box to -20,200 end openStack on idle if the message box is not empty then if the message box contains space then beep else if the message box contains "m" then flash 1 times [ etc ] put empty into the message box end if end idle on closeStack global msgLoc, theLevel set the userLevel to theLevel set the lock of the message box to msgLoc end openStack jeanne a. e. devoto jdevoto@apple.com
annie@cs.swarthmore.edu (Annie Fetter) (02/15/89)
Reply to: annie@cs.swarthmore.edu Organization: Visual Geometry Project, Swarthmore College, PA Keywords: Inkey() XFCN In article <671@internal.Apple.COM> casseres@Apple.COM (David Casseres) writes: > In article <479@grand.UUCP> day@grand.UUCP (Dave Yost) writes: > >My baby loves to play with the keyboard and the mouse. > > I've been wanting to do something like this but haven't been able to > figure out how to intercept keystrokes. Anyone have a clue? > > David Casseres There is an XFCN called Inkey which will do just that. It is available just about anywhere (I don't remember where I got it) but if you can't find it, send me a note and I'll mail you a copy. A sample use would look like this on idle get Inkey() if it is "yes" then scream, yell, and jump up and down else doMenu "Quit Hypercard" end idle goodLuck! -Annie -- Annie Fetter | annie@cs.swarthmore.edu | "We got the VGP-Department of Mathematics | fetter@swarthmr.bitnet | grant! We Swarthmore College | ...!rutgers!bpa!swatsun!annie | Open the Swarthmore, PA 19081 | (215) 328-8225 | champagne!"