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Posts On Location

will be appended to the end of the status update when you choose the

Insert Location option menu item:

Figure 38. The results from the Insert Location menu item in Patchy

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Here are some things you can try beyond those step-by-step instructions:

• Allow the user to choose the LocationProvider via a set of
  preferences that specify the attributes of a Criteria object, then

using that Criteria object to get the best-matching

LocationProvider.

• Use onKeyDown() to add "hot-key" support, such that some key (e.g.,

<Alt>-<X>) will inject the location, instead of having to use the

option menu.

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