neil@dsl.cis.upenn.edu (Neil Radisch) (03/13/88)
Is there any special conditions forced upon an fkey routine that effects the use of variables? example The following works fine Procedure fkey; begin moveto(100,100); drawstring('hello'); end; The following does nothing Procedure fkey; var stuff:str255; begin stuff:='hello'; moveto(100,100); drawstring(stuff); end; Any ideas....Oh by the way I'm using Turbo Pascal |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | "Better to remain quiet and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove | | all doubt" --- Abraham Lincoln | | | | neil@dsl.cis.upenn.edu.UUCP | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
g099508030ea@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Jim Deline) (03/15/88)
In article <3661@super.upenn.edu> neil@dsl.cis.upenn.edu.UUCP (Neil Radisch) writes: >Is there any special conditions forced upon an fkey routine that effects >the use of variables? > >example >The following works fine > Procedure fkey; > begin > moveto(100,100); > drawstring('hello'); > end; > >The following does nothing > Procedure fkey; > var stuff:str255; > begin > stuff:='hello'; > moveto(100,100); > drawstring(stuff); > end; > >Any ideas....Oh by the way I'm using Turbo Pascal Your problem is, Neil, that you are not allowed to declare global variables in Fkeys. I know that your Fkey "procedure" looks like it declares a local variable, but since it is the 'Main' procedure the compiler treats it like a global declaration. What you can do is declare your Fkey main procedure, then call a procedure outside of main. Other procedures can have local variables. For instance: Procedure WriteSomething; VAR aString: Str255; Begin aString := 'Hello'; moveto(100,100); drawstring(aString) End; Procedure Fkey; { No variables allowed } Begin WriteSomething; End. I am not real familiar with Turbo, but in LightSpeed Fkeys are declared in units, and there has to be a 'Main' procedure. I hope this helps. Jim Deline, UCD Chem Dept.
sho@gibbs.physics.purdue.edu (Sho Kuwamoto) (05/16/91)
It seems like FKEYs have been a little left out recently. You can't put them in suitcases, you can't (I think....) drag them into the system folder. Now, from IM VI, we have the following: FKEY 3 now produces a screenshot, [...] FKEY resource IDs 0 through 2 and 4 through 9 are reserved for future use by Apple. Do you get the feeling they don't especially like FKEYs? -Sho -- sho@physics.purdue.edu
jmatthews@desire.wright.edu (05/16/91)
In article <5108@dirac.physics.purdue.edu>, sho@gibbs.physics.purdue.edu (Sho Kuwamoto) writes: > It seems like FKEYs have been a little left out recently. You can't > put them in suitcases, you can't (I think....) drag them into the > system folder. Now, from IM VI, we have the following: > > FKEY 3 now produces a screenshot, [...] FKEY resource IDs 0 through 2 > and 4 through 9 are reserved for future use by Apple. > > Do you get the feeling they don't especially like FKEYs? > > -Sho > -- > sho@physics.purdue.edu I put a few treasured FKEYs in system 7.0b4 and they worked fine. I can't honestly recall if I dragged them into the system folder or used ResEdit?! I hadn't noticed the reservation clause in IM6. I guess if Apple fills up the slots with things I like better, I'll have to do something innovative with QuicKeys 2 (or whatever). FKEYs forever! John o----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | John B. Matthews, jmatthews@desire.wright.edu, am103@cleveland.freenet.edu | | "Now why would Dan Rather be standing around on MY porch with a TV crew?" | o----------------------------------------------------------------------------o