Several questions about the Menu Mgr

[Gareth Jones]

Thanks again for this, Jeanne. Of course, since I'm mocking up a 
program's menus, the important thing for me is having the shortcut 
appear to the right of the menu item :-(. However, I'm clipping out 
your handler for future use.

-Gareth

>At 8:06 PM -0800 11/12/02, Gareth Jones wrote:
>>Now, about the other questions: can I specify a keyboard equivalent
>>of a menu item that needs Command+Shiftkey+letter or a Function key
>>(e.g. F2)?
>
>
>You can write handlers to trap these keypresses (see the functionKey and
>commandKey messages), but there's no way I know of as yet to have them
>appear at the right edge of the menu as shortcuts. Your handler would look
>like this:
>
>   on commandKeyDown theKey
>     if the shiftKey is down then
>       switch theKey
>       case "A"
>         -- do whatever you want for command-shift-A
>         break
>       case "D"
>         -- ...
>       default
>         pass commandKeyDown
>       end switch
>     else pass commandKeyDown
>   end commandKey
>
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>Jeanne A. E. DeVoto ~ jeanne at runrev.com
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