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- From: himsolt@trillian.fmi.uni-passau.de (Michael Himsolt)
- Subject: how to display keyboard shortcuts in menus (xview)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.190930.15182@tom.rz.uni-passau.de>
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- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 19:09:30 GMT
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- I hope this is not a faq : is there an easy / common way to
- display keyboard shortcuts in menus ?
-
- The "natual" way for me seems to show the keyboard shortcut in
- each menu entry, padded to the right (Mac-like). That was easy
- under SunView - just fill up with blanks. However, XView now
- uses variable-width fonts, and that trick wont work no more.
-
- It seems that SUN wants to put everything in the pop-up help
- window, but I cannot see why this should be better. At least for
- shortcuts, it is time-consuming, if not annoying.
-
- Does anybody have an idea / solution ?
-
- Thanks in advance
-
- -- Michael Himsolt
-