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Article #7809Re: Command Keys for Openning Desk Accs. (Was: Changing Fonts from the keyboard)
From: David Phillip Oster;;;;JE52
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1986 20:16
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1986 20:16
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When you add your own mwnu items to the Apple menu to get command key
equivalents for desk accessories, watch out. According to apple's
guidlines, each desk accessory should have leading null character in its
name. Some amateur desk accessories ignore this requirement.
Getting a leading null character into a name in a menu from resEdit is
tough. The best way I know to do it is to use some ascii character with a
distinctive hex code ('@' = 0x40, for example.) as a place holder, then
open the menu as general, search for 0x40, and change it to 0x00.
Warning: you can make an application unusable by incautious poking around
with ResEdit. Work on copies and be careful. Good luck.
--- David Phillip Oster -- "The goal of Computer Science is to
Arpa: oster@lapis.berkeley.edu -- build something that will last at
Uucp: ucbvax!ucblapis!oster -- least until we've finished building it."
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!jade!lapis.berkeley.edu!oster From: oster@lapis.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster;;;;JE52) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Command Keys for Openning Desk Accs. (Was: Changing Fonts from the keyboard) Message-ID: <1559@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Thu, 30-Oct-86 15:16:32 EST Article-I.D.: jade.1559 Posted: Thu Oct 30 15:16:32 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 31-Oct-86 13:26:33 EST References: <544@husc6.HARVARD.EDU> Sender: usenet@jade.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: oster@lapis.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster) Distribution: net Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 13 Keywords: Fonts, math typing, command keys