Re: Question Mark Cursor
Re: Question Mark Cursor
- Subject: Re: Question Mark Cursor
- From: Uli Kusterer <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 23:59:16 +0200
Am 19.10.2007 um 23:46 schrieb Chris Williams:
I have an app with my own view. I handle all the keyboard input on
this
view, of course. I want to be able to use the dedicated insert/
delete keys
(above the arrows) for some things in my application. Delete is
working
fine. But when I press insert, I get a question mark cursor and
nothing in
my application.
There is no "insert" key on the Mac keyboard. That key is labeled
"Help" on a Mac keyboard. I'm not sure it'd be a good idea to re-
label the help key as insert as that'll only help those few people
who bought a Mac mini and attached a PC keyboard to it.
A) What does this cursor mean? I see that in some applications it
does that
(turns into a ? and does seemingly nothing), and in others it
brings up
help.
I vaguely remember that it's a special help mode that lets you
click on objects to bring up additional help, but I haven't yet found
an app that actually does anything in response to these "help clicks".
I think most apps that show help are probably Carbon apps. Showing
Apple Guide content (and later Apple HTML Help) was the default
behaviour for the Help key on OS 9.
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
http://www.zathras.de
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