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From: UD041948@VM1.NODAK.EDU (Joe Carlin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Default Finder Shutdown Option
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Date: 10 Nov 89 13:39:29 GMT
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Even more awesome, is that I thought of wonderful routing for Apple to
impliment into their Dialog Manager routines.  Often times, all the choices
in dialog boxes start with a different letter.  How about if instead of
having to move the mouse to click one of the buttons (which of course would
be present as well as an option), to just press the key of the first letter
of the choice you want.  For example, in Finder, you put in an unformatted
disk, and the following dialog box pops up:

              GS/OS cannot read this disk.  Which option to choose?

                              Eject       Format

Now, neither of the buttons can be selected by return, so how about I just
press 'E' to Eject it, or 'F' to format the disk?  I like that idea if I could
do that if I have my fingers at the keyboard (I would like a response from
Apple), or just click the button with my mouse if my hand is there.  See,
now here's another awesome idea some little guy far far far (1500 miles)
from Apple has, and my input could affect the next System Disk.  Gosh, I
feel awful important now.  See, I'm just full of nifty ideas this week.

Joe