Sending keyDown

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Thu Oct 22 22:23:05 EDT 2009


Richard Gaskin wrote:

> I once argued with him on that one, insisting it was absolutely 
> necessary to have it after I discovered it while doing a port.  His 
> answer was that if I need a custom behavior then use a custom name.  He 
> did offer to reconsider if I could come up with a scenario in which it 
> would be truly necessary, but even after enlisting the help of the good 
> folks here none of us could come up with one. 

I did, but he didn't buy it. And I only needed it that one time, for a 
HC conversion on a poorly-written stack. In this one case an override 
would have saved me hours of work. But that was the only time I ever 
missed it.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com



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