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- From: Quinn <quinn@cs.uwa.edu.au>
- Subject: Re: Determining modifier key status without an event record
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.013317.12967@bilby.cs.uwa.edu.au>
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- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 01:33:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.090240.10742@tdb.uu.se> Mats Bredell,
- bredell@tdb.uu.se writes:
- >A lot of programs behave differently if you hold down a certain modifier
- key
- >while selecting from the menu. However, you should also change the menu
- item
- >title when this happens. I've never seen a program that lets you press
- the
- >modifier *after* the original menu click.
-
- #1 MultiFinder 6.1b9 (Apple menu)
- #2 Think Pascal 4 (lots of menus eg File)
-
- Aren't custom MDEFs wonderful. Actually Think Pascal's MDEF has
- problems under certain circumstances... If you move the mouse up
- and down the menu (thereby highlighting different items) and tap
- on the option key rapidly, it will occasionally stuff up the item
- highlighting. I don't have the nerve to report this one as a bug (-:
-
- Quinn "The Eskimo!" <quinn@cs.uwa.edu.au> "Support HAVOC!"
- Department of Computer Science, The University of Western Australia
- -- Danger! Pedant!
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