On Dec 19, 2006, at 9:13, Tex Clayton wrote:
On Dec 18, 2006, at 4:19 PM, debbie fligor wrote:
Okay, I went to get the list of which dialog boxed did this, and
it looks like most of these have been fixed (or I'm confusing the
Intermapper dialogs with some other app), but "set Comment" does
behave like this (I thought Label did too, but it's correct):
At least for Mac, if a button is selected in a dialog pressing
return is supposed to be the same as clicking the button. In some
dialog boxes (usually where there is a potential for return to be
used in entering text) the "Okay" button is highlighted, but
pressing return doesn't select it.
Also, older (traditional?) Mac versions used to let you use
"enter" on the number pad instead instead of clicking the "Okay"
button for dialog boxes like "Label". is there a keyboard
shortcut for that in the current version?
Java does not differentiate between Enter and Return.
bummer
Apple's OS X Human Interface Guidelines actually state,
"While the user is entering text into a text document, pressing
Enter has no effect."
but they also say that if a button is highlighted pressing return
selects that button.
I was asking for two different things, I didn't mean to suggest that
not letting enter work would be against the guidelines, just that a
pre-selected button that wasn't responsive to return isn't. Sorry if
I was confusing, I didn't mean to be.
the other question was looking for a non-standard way to close the
dialog box without having to move the mouse half way across the
screen and back to the next item I need to select. when you're
working on a whole lot of things doing the same thing over and over
having to stop typing, move the mouse down to the "Okay" button and
then back up to the next device (that was where the mouse already
was) slows things down a lot when you're adding and setting up 20 or
30 devices at a time. I was just wondering if there was some other
keyboard shortcut since Enter doesn't work any more. If there isn't,
could there be? ctrl-return or something like that. If not, I
understand..
Just saw your other mail come in:
Try Ctrl-Return.
If you find any dialogs that this does not work in, please file a bug.
many thanks!
-Tex Clayton
Dartware, LLC
http://www.dartware.com
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-debbie
Debbie Fligor, n9dn Network Engineer, CITES, Univ. of Il
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/fligor>
"Every keystroke can be monitored. And the computers never forget."
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