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- From: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: A Style Guide Question
- Message-ID: <56468@dime.cs.umass.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 21:20:46 GMT
- References: <17474@pitt.UUCP> <mwm.2nu7@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us> <37104@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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- In article <37104@cbmvax.commodore.com> peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna) writes:
- >There needs to be some modeless way to strike the key-equivalent for
- >a gadget even while a string gadget is active. There isn't a good
- >universal way right now.
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- Hear hear!! [Wild applause.]
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- >The Amiga Style Guide addresses this problem by recommending that
- ><ENTER> in a string gadget deactivate the string gadget but not close
- >the window or take any other drastic action. The idea is that <ENTER>
- >followed by "D" or "C" would have the desired effect.
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- And then, there are the programs that use <RETURN> or <ENTER> to
- move from string gadget to string gadget. In such a program, using the menu
- key equivalents is nearly impossible! And yet, it's a common practice
- that (IMHO) is intuitively a reasonable thing to do.
-
- Dan
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