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- From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
- Subject: Re: setting a button key to be ESC
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.023117.22863@csus.edu>
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- Organization: San Francisco State University
- References: <Bu33xu.7x3@cs.psu.edu> <1992Sep6.145546.7044@next.cambridge.ma.us> <Bu68tK.37L@cs.psu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 02:31:17 GMT
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- In article <Bu68tK.37L@cs.psu.edu> grio@colossus.cs.psu.edu
- (Daniel L Grillo) writes:
- >I was hoping there was a way to use ESC, without subclassing Panel.
-
- From Chapter 3 of the UI Guidelines:
-
- For UNIX compatibility, the Esc key is used to complete
- file names (as described in the following section). It
- should not be used any other way in the user interface.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- They tell you not to do this. They've made it difficult for you
- to circumvent. Must you be so obstinate?
-
- -=EPS=-
- --
- If I fall off this cliff, will it hurt?
- (Yes, it will.)
- Why do you think they erected a fence there?
- (Because some people don't read.)
-