Checking for the commandKeyMask set did the trick. Thanks.
<doc update>
StrChr() will complain when told to search for characters > 255
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-Paul
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> When Gremlins posts a character >= 256, it also sets the commandKeyMask
> modifier. This allows SysHandleEvent to handle those characters. Hence,
> those characters should not be showing up in your text fields. Are you
> finding instances where that modifier is not set?
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> "Paul Dugas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 03/15/99 07:58:19 PM
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> Hi all,
> While feeding my program a few gremlins to chew on, it died this evening.
> I
> managed to track it down to the following. Calls to StrChr(str,
> chr) where
> chr>=256 causes a "StringMgr.c, Line:670, bad chr passed" error. The
> questions is, are these character valid? Gremlins seems to be typing them
> into some of my textfield that I'm filtering. I got around it by testing
> for chr>255 before the StrChr(str, chr) call.
> Is this supposed to be this way?
> -Paul
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