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- From: alberto@parsec.mixcom.com (Manuel Alberto Ricart)
- Subject: Re: setting a button key to be ESC
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.034534.1160@parsec.mixcom.com>
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- References: <1992Sep6.145546.7044@next.cambridge.ma.us> <Bu68tK.37L@cs.psu.edu> <1992Sep7.023117.22863@csus.edu>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 03:45:34 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep7.023117.22863@csus.edu> eps@cs.sfsu.edu writes:
- >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 .......
-
- Perhaps the UI Guidlines should take a new look at this.
- Perhaps, all button options could be invoked by pressing
- <cmd> + the first letter of the button name. This practice
- is sure to save a lot of mousing around.
-
- As for use of the <esc> key, i'd love it as the standard
- cancel. In the end rules are made to be modified, since they
- tend to challenge thoughts and provoke better or compromising
- solutions.
-
- Then again, since this is object land, just subclass the appropiate
- classes, and rock on. Your app will probably start a trend.
-
-
- --
- Manuel Alberto Ricart
- alberto@parsec.mixcom.com <NeXTMail Welcome>
-