Rich Love wrote:

> I am using the following statements to modify a menu so it will work  
> with Option N from the keyboard.
> It does put the Option N symbol in the menu item.
> However, when I do an Option N on the keyboard, nothing happens.

You would have to do a Command/Option/n if it were to work, but you may 
also have to trap for keyDown events as well. Not sure how much the 
runtimes handle for the menus now, since the other Command Keys appear 
to operate without additional work on our part.

Joe Wilkins

>
> What else do I need to do to make it work from the keyboard?
> I am running Carbon / standard basic / OS X
>
> menuH = FN GetMenuHandle(_CaptureMenu)
> call SetItemCmd(menuH,_MakeaNewCaptureFileItem,_"N")
> err = FN  
> SetMenuItemModifiers(menuH,_MakeaNewCaptureFileItem,_kMenuOptionModifier )
>
>
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