Trapping the Option or Command keys

Sarah Reichelt sarah.reichelt at gmail.com
Tue Jul 28 18:56:22 EDT 2009


On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Bill Ziegler<billziegler at mac.com> wrote:
> Thanks to all for your advice.
> I was going to check the state of the keys with an On-Idle script but will
> try Sarah's suggestion instead.

Don't use idle!
It was OK in HyperCard's day, but with modern multi--tasking, an app
with an idle loop will tie up your processor and all the other apps
will hate it.

Cheers,
Sarah



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