mmoss@csws10.ic.sunysb.edu (Matthew D Moss) (12/10/90)
Sorry, my system won't let me 'R'espond to any postings, so I can't include the original question, nor do I remember the person's name. The basic question was how to make the menu of a DA accept COMMAND-W as Close in the File menu. The peron who asked had gone into the program's resources with ResEdit, but had no luck after changing the resource. My answer : If you change the resource, all that will do is change it's appearance when the menu is drawn onscreen. To make the DA (or any program) accept a change of Command key, you must change the source code of the program. Basically, write in a event handler routine that watches for keyDown events, then use a switch to catch any W's, and check to see if the Command key was down (some other function). At least, that's what I know. I've only begun programming, so I may be wrong. ---------------- Matthew Moss mmoss@libserv1.ic.sunysb.edu "To spam or not to spam, that is the lunchmeat!" - He who would be me ----------------
pepke@gw.scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke) (12/12/90)
In article <1990Dec10.044033.19193@sbcs.sunysb.edu> mmoss@csws10.ic.sunysb.edu (Matthew D Moss) writes: > To make the DA (or any program) accept a change of Command > key, you must change the source code of the program. No you don't, at least for applications. A correct program determines whether a keypress corresponds to a menu item by calling the MenuKey routine. This routine does a search of the existing menus on the screen and returns the first item it finds with that command key equivalent. Eric Pepke INTERNET: pepke@gw.scri.fsu.edu Supercomputer Computations Research Institute MFENET: pepke@fsu Florida State University SPAN: scri::pepke Tallahassee, FL 32306-4052 BITNET: pepke@fsu Disclaimer: My employers seldom even LISTEN to my opinions. Meta-disclaimer: Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.