NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #20/NN_1992_20.iso/spool/comp/sys/mac/programm/15373

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From: [e-mail] (Thomas C Kerrigan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Problem in C, please help!
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 11 Sep 92 23:55:23 GMT
References: <[e-mail]>
Organization: Rocky Mountain High School
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Well, I looked your code over and I think I see some problems. First off, I am
very suprised it compiled, because I have never heard of a WNE filter (I
assume it is Wait Next Event). Second, it seems that when you are in your
trap, you call Wait Next Event. What happens is this: MS Word will call WNE
and when it gets an event, your filter is run which calls WNE again, so you
have to type the same character twice if you want your program run. Third, I
am not sure that changing a pointer to the event message will actually change
the message in other programs.

The solution to all this is easy: download Alex Chaffe's Shift-O-Matic source
code. Since it comes with little or no documentation, I will run you through
it here. The actual init puts up an icon and sets one of the functions as a
jGNE filter. When the filter function is called (filteromatic) it restores
your global variables in A4, and gets the event message via a jGNE variable.
If there is an event, the shiftomatic function is called, which just
de-capitalizes the letter entered if both caps-lock and shift are being held
down. You will want to try this code, but replace the shiftomatic function
with one of your own.

Shift-O-Matic does not compile under THINK C 5. To fix this, just put voids in
all the functions and prototypes when you see something like function_name();

I will mail you the stuff if you can't find it yourself.

Live long and prosper,
[e-mail]