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Re: [OT] Re: Adding a message to a mailbox in Mail

On Thursday, October 3, 2002, at 10:17 AM, cricket wrote:

On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 07:46 PM, Chris Page wrote:

Or a more common one is cmd-first letter of the button. Both of these are very old Mac UI conventions.

Not just a convention, the standard "Save, Cancel, Don't Save" dialog as implemented by the OS supports this. Unfortunately -- and perhaps the reason Cricket never heard of it -- this behavior is not supported by the sheet version, only by the modal dialog version.

It works in Jaguar. What I've never heard of is activating a button by pressing a letter key (without modifier), which is what I thought the original author was talking about.

Ah, right. Well, it's a mixed bag. Some applications support this initial button letter feature with or without the Command key, some allow it in only some dialogs, and some allow it everywhere. Some display or highlight the letter key for each button when the Command key is pressed, some don't. It's very ad hoc.

It seems to me that if a sheet is active, unmodified keypresses should go to the sheet (which I'm pretty sure they actually do) and if it only has buttons, and no editable text, then it might make sense to support button selection using unmodified keys. I find it very frustrating in Mail when I can't type Command-D to select "Don't Save" when I close a message window. Since sheets are modeless, and Command-D is already assigned to a menu item, I think accepting unmodified keypresses instead would make a lot of sense.

--
Chris Page - Mac Guy - Palm, Inc.

Tip of The Day: There is no such thing as "High ASCII". Any character value outside the range 0-127 is by definition not ASCII.
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