[comp.sys.mac.programmer] Op-Keydowns in Dialog?

yomy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (02/27/91)

I have a dialog box in which I want to intercept option-key combinations to
select certain controls.  My problem is that certain combinations are not
reported as keydown events (ie. option i and option e which are supposed to add
accents to the following typed letters).  Does anyone know how to disable these
dead keys, or to tell the event manager to report all keydown events?

My current solution is to scan the keyboard repeatedly to see which keys are
being pressed, the biggest problem with this is that keys pressed before the
dialog appears are lost.

Please post or email, whatever goes you..

Thanks for any ideas
pat young
yomy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu