Re: Keyboard Control Panel 8.5 (Gestalts 'n' Stuff)
Re: Keyboard Control Panel 8.5 (Gestalts 'n' Stuff)
- Subject: Re: Keyboard Control Panel 8.5 (Gestalts 'n' Stuff)
- From: Matt Childress <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 16:06:04 -0600
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All that blab and no answer. Aren't I helpful? 8)
Thanks for the detail! While it looks like I will not be able to
make life as transparently as easy as possible for our customers
installing our product by performing the operation for them, the
Gestalt information did pay dividends. Stuffit Installermaker can be
configured to detect Gestalt conditions, so using your information I
detect it and throw up a warning dialog box that they must perform
this manually. Not real user friendly, but at least I launch the
control panel for 'em (and it doesn't appear unless they have it
turned on).
I had also thought of hacking/overwriting the preference file, but
I'm already pushing the limit on a 1.4 MB floppy (not a lot of room
for additional lines of code), pushing a deadline -- so there's not a
lot of time and space to write code that actually alters the
preferences file, and just overwriting it with the one from my Mac
seems risky -- I'd be nuking their other settings like key repeat
rate and Keyboard.
Thanks bunches! Looks like the programer(s) that were responsible
for upgrading the keyboard control panel missed upgrading the
Keyboard Addition Scripting Additions to include hooks for the F-key
setup -- you can change just about everything else though the
Scripting Addition. That's why I love the About Box for control
panels like 'Appearances' -- I get to see the names of the folks who
designed it, and can (possibly) look them up ;-)
Once again, Thanks!