On Tuesday, September 4, 2012, Bob Sneidar wrote:
Personally I like prompting the user click the button, using hotkeys as a
less than obvious means.
I generally view amply circumstance in which the user is forced to use the
mouse in the middle of a routine data entry task as a catastrophic
Maybe a dialog is not the way to go in those circumstances. If it's a choice
between several things that are not standard yes/no choices, perhaps a menu or
radio button would work better? I have always seen dialogs as a way to
interrupt the normal flow of data entry, and alert the user to a
Personally I like prompting the user click the button, using hotkeys as a less
than obvious means. Users are much less likely to make an error when clicking,
as opposed to typing a key, especially a numeric one.
Bob
On Sep 3, 2012, at 10:10 AM, Paul Hibbert wrote:
On 2012-09-03, at 12:18
But this doesn't
on mouseUp
answer Press cmd+e for Blue, cmd+k for Black or cmd+n for Brown or
cmd+c for Cancel with Blue or Black or Brown or Cancel as sheet
put it into fld Field4
end mouseUp
It would appear that you are limited to the first letter of the button and
therefore can not
On Monday, September 3, 2012, Kay C Lan wrote:
It would appear that you are limited to the first letter of the button and
therefore can not have buttons that start with the same letter.
After I wrote this, I reflexively hit a Y for yes--and it worked.
No modifiers; just the Y.
But I only
Buttons have a shortcut and hint property in their Inspector palette to
handle this so you can either use your own version of an answer/ask dialog
or edit the IDE stack (Answer Dialog or Ask Dialog)
Pete
lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Dr. Hawkins
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
On Monday, September 3, 2012, Kay C Lan wrote:
It would appear that you are limited to the first letter of the button
and
therefore can not have buttons that start with the same letter.
After I wrote this, I reflexively hit a Y for
On 2012-09-03, at 12:18 AM, Kay C Lan wrote:
But this doesn't
on mouseUp
answer Press cmd+e for Blue, cmd+k for Black or cmd+n for Brown or
cmd+c for Cancel with Blue or Black or Brown or Cancel as sheet
put it into fld Field4
end mouseUp
It would appear that you are limited to
I'm kind of surprised that I'm not tripping over them; it's been
nearly 30 years since MS had these in word 1.0 . . .
Anyway, in an answer dialog, is there any way to have accelerator/hot
keys other then enter/escape? For example, Y for Yes when the default
is no?
Or do I need my own little
: hotkeys for button choices in answer
I'm kind of surprised that I'm not tripping over them; it's been
nearly 30 years since MS had these in word 1.0 . . .
Anyway, in an answer dialog, is there any way to have accelerator/hot
keys other then enter/escape? For example, Y for Yes when the default
On 2012-09-02, at 9:33 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
I'm kind of surprised that I'm not tripping over them; it's been
nearly 30 years since MS had these in word 1.0 . . .
Anyway, in an answer dialog, is there any way to have accelerator/hot
keys other then enter/escape? For example, Y for Yes
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