-- card: 2822 from stack: in
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-- name: 


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-- part 6 (button)
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-- part 7 (button)
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-- part 8 (button)
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-- part 9 (button)
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-- part 10 (button)
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-- part 11 (button)
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-- part 12 (button)
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-- part 13 (button)
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-- part name: l


-- part 14 (button)
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-- part 15 (button)
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-- part 16 (button)
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-- part 17 (button)
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-- part 18 (button)
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-- part 19 (button)
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-- part 20 (button)
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-- part name: y


-- part 21 (button)
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-- part 22 (button)
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-- part 23 (button)
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-- rect: left=199 top=129 right=148 bottom=217
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-- style flags: 0
-- line height: 16
-- part name: o


-- part 24 (button)
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-- rect: left=219 top=129 right=148 bottom=237
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-- part 25 (button)
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-- part 26 (button)
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-- part 27 (button)
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-- part 29 (button)
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-- part 31 (button)
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-- part 32 (button)
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-- part 33 (button)
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-- part 34 (button)
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-- part 38 (button)
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-- part 55 (field)
-- low flags: 00
-- high flags: 0007
-- rect: left=299 top=61 right=280 bottom=476
-- title width / last selected line: 0
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-- part name: 


-- part 56 (button)
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-- part name: Edit background script
----- HyperTalk script -----
on mouseUp
  edit script of background id 2753
end mouseUp



-- part 57 (button)
-- low flags: 00
-- high flags: A000
-- rect: left=93 top=263 right=282 bottom=217
-- title width / last selected line: 0
-- icon id / first selected line: 0 / 0
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-- part name: Edit stack script
----- HyperTalk script -----
on mouseUp
  edit script of stack "Key messages"
end mouseUp



-- part contents for card part 55
----- text -----
Key messages
by David Bogartz
21 Oct 1987

This stack shows a quick and very dirty way to get HyperCard to send a message when the user presses a key (other than return, tab, and the arrow keys).  It doesn't work for number keys, and it probably isn't right for some applications, but it's simple and will probably work in many cases.

The basic idea is that there is an idle handler in the background script that looks in the message box and grabs whatever is there.  Then, for each keystroke, it 
generates the event "key" with the char that the user pressed as a parameter. 

The trick is how to deal with the message box.  It looks like the message box is hidden, but in point of fact you can't have the message box hidden because (as far as I can tell) whenever you put something into the message box, HyperCard shows it.  So I have it visible, but offscreen.

The key-caps-like thing to the left is just a sample of what you can do with this technique.