Re: [OT] Re: Adding a message to a mailbox in Mail
Re: [OT] Re: Adding a message to a mailbox in Mail
- Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Adding a message to a mailbox in Mail
- From: Chris Page <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 03:33:09 -0700
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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