[Flightgear-devel] Re: gui dialogs: selecting buttons via keyboard

2005-11-08 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Tuesday 08 November 2005 10:14: > The bo's and c150's dialogs are currently on the key. Both dialogs are defined entirely in Nasal, which may look a bit scary for Nasal beginners. It's easier to use a regular gui xml for such aircraft specific dialogs. Just put them into the a

[Flightgear-devel] Re: gui dialogs: selecting buttons via keyboard

2005-11-08 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Josh Babcock -- Monday 07 November 2005 23:21: > it would be nice to have access to all the special function in one place > that is accessible through keystrokes. That's not hard. The bo105 and c150 have such a dialog (albeit without assigned keys, which would be very easy to add). > Maybe it

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: gui dialogs: selecting buttons via keyboard

2005-11-05 Thread Norman Vine
> Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > > I thought it might be advisable to make Ctrl-q the key for exiting > > from fgfs (like it's standard in almost all GUI apps I know), and Esc > > the key for canceling/dismissing/closing dialogs. Alt-F4 is the key used for the this on the *vast* majority of programs

[Flightgear-devel] Re: gui dialogs: selecting buttons via keyboard

2005-11-05 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Erik Hofman -- Saturday 05 November 2005 14:25: > Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > Yes. But I was concerned about the double function: cancel dialog > > (harmless) or exit fgfs (theoretically harmless, too, but I'm quick > > with pressing , so it isn't). > > Ah, the average MS Windows users mentality.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: gui dialogs: selecting buttons via keyboard

2005-11-05 Thread Martin Spott
Melchior FRANZ wrote: > I thought it might be advisable to make Ctrl-q the key for exiting > from fgfs (like it's standard in almost all GUI apps I know), and Esc > the key for canceling/dismissing/closing dialogs. I definitely support this proposal, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: gui dialogs: selecting buttons via keyboard

2005-11-05 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: Yes. But I was concerned about the double function: cancel dialog (harmless) or exit fgfs (theoretically harmless, too, but I'm quick with pressing , so it isn't). Ah, the average MS Windows users mentality. A former colleague of mine once put a common windows dialog cont

[Flightgear-devel] Re: gui dialogs: selecting buttons via keyboard

2005-11-05 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Erik Hofman -- Saturday 05 November 2005 13:46: > It would be great to see the ESC key default to dialog exit at > some point in time. It's too often I expect the dialog to close but > instead get a new (exit) dialog. Yes. But I was concerned about the double function: cancel dialog (harmless)