Custom App handling of events

[jgreenb2]

Tim,

Thanks for the clarification on variables, but since you're on, I thought I'd ask something else that's been confusing to me.

A built-in App like Function responds to soft-menus AND other events (key presses, mouse etc.)

If I write an App that puts up a custom menu bar I need to poll for events within a loop in order to process the soft-menus. There doesn't seem to be an API to pass events I'm not interested in to the system for processing. So if I'm handling my soft-menus, other keys (e.g. View) are basically dead.

I don't want to reproduce the functionality of every key in my App. Is there a way to handle this? Otherwise, I don't see an easy way to create useful soft-menus at the moment.