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- From: matija@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Matija Milostnik)
- Subject: Re: Default buttons under 2 or ^
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.073450.14111@ifi.unizh.ch>
- Summary: Return key as default activation
- Keywords: buttons default style look interface
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- Organization: Informatik Club d. Universitaet, Zuerich
- References: <BzBrzI.GME@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 07:34:50 GMT
- Lines: 56
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- In article <BzBrzI.GME@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jake Rose) writes:
- >Hey, folks.
-
- Hello
-
- > I've been looking for a nice, standard way of displaying a
- >default response for requesters and options panels on the Amiga for a
- >while now, [...]
-
- >The idea is to draw a sunken borderbox around the gadtools gadget that
- >will be "hit" if the return key is pressed, to indicate that that is the
- >default response.
-
- Sorry, the answer is NO.
-
- The default option for any requester shuold NOT be activated
- by a RETURN. There was a lenghty discusion why this is A Bad Thing.
- Just picture the situation where you are writing a document and are
- to press return and another application pops up a requester with the
- return key as default....
-
- I think it looks very clean and that it doesn't clutter
- >things up on the screen, in contrast to the standard proposed by many
- >programs, which is to place the text for the default response button in
- >bold. I find it extremely ugly.
-
- It is indeed.
- Till 1.x the Intuition section of the manual proposed to bolten the default
- action, now this section is not present any more. Under 2.x and greater all
- gadget should look equal. The default activation is marked with underlined
- characters in the Gadgets. All gadgets look equal.
-
- > So my question is, what do people think
- >of this idea, and does anyone know why the style guide would complain about
- >it? I've looked through it (read it from cover to cover, in fact), but I
- >haven't noticed anything in there on this.
-
- The best solution I came across is to expand the capability of the
- 'left Amiga v' and 'left amiga b' (or whatever the user defined).
- You define your gadget with a tag called 'GA_Default_Positive' and
- 'GA_Default_Negative', just like the end requester flags in gadgets
- of requesters. This way ANY application could have a default key
- activation and everybody would know that 'left amiga v' is positive
- and 'left amiga b' is the negative choise in the requester, thus
- avoiding the need of bold gadgets or strange visual apparence of
- the gadgets.
-
-
- >Thanks for your response!
- Your are welcome
- Matija
- --
- Best regards from Matija Milostinik : matija@avalon.physik.unizh.ch
- : matija@amiga.physik.unizh.ch
- Therefore, use local labels in the procedures as often as possible.
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