Why can't I send tabKey?

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Thu Aug 11 11:08:48 EDT 2005


On 8/11/05 1:37 AM, "Dan Shafer" <revdan at danshafer.com> wrote:

> But if I try to send tabKey, with or without quotation marks and with
> or without a target, I always get a "can't find handler" error.

That's because 'tabKey' isn't treated as a handler... it's treated as a
keystroke. You need to "type tabkey" instead of "send". I think this would
be the same as functionKey, etc. But I agree with you - if it is a handler
that can be trapped, it should be able to be "sent". So I'd still BZ it.

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com





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