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Re: MacroMaker and Option-DA

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From: Shane Looker
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1989 03:20
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In article <1160@ditsyda.oz> vincent@ditsyda.oz (David A. Vincent) writes:
:I can't seem to get MacroMaker to record the opening of a DA with the
:option key down (so that, in MultiFinder, the DA opens in the current
:application's layer).  It records it as an ordinary open of the DA.  
:
:I would like to be able to have a macro that opens a DA, does things in it, 
:closes it, and returns to the layer that was active beforehand.  At 
:the moment, if there are other DAs open, the DA handler layer will 
:stay active.  I could Quit from the DA handler layer but I don't want
:to do that for some situations.  
:
:Anybody, is there a fix?  
:
:David A. Vincent 


This same problem happens with QuickKeys 1.1 and System 6.0.2.  This is
quite annoying.  It used to work.  I don't know what Apple changed.

Shane Looker   |  Looker@um.cc.umich.edu
America works less, when you say "Union Yes!"
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From: shane@chablis.cc.umich.edu (Shane Looker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacroMaker and Option-DA
Summary: QuickKeys has the same problem.
Keywords: MacroMaker MultiFinder bug feature incompatibility
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Date: 17 Jan 89 03:20:27 GMT
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