Path: utzoo!censor!geac!jtsv16!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!jm7e+ From: jm7e+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU ("Jeremy G. Mereness") Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Default Finder Shutdown Option Message-ID: Date: 11 Nov 89 05:27:47 GMT References: <8911100845.aa28226@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Organization: The Internet Lines: 29 Joe Carlin writes: > 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 On the Mac, there are often buttons with keyboard equivalents using the Open-Apple key. The key would be printed inside the button along with whatever the button did. Even more fun, toggling the key blackens the button as if you had pressed it with the mouse. Its a really cool idea, and again prevents you from doing anything too crazy by smacking RETURN by mistake. Gotta look into this.... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | Jeremy Mereness | Support | Disclaimer: | | jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (internet) | Free | The above represent my | | r746jm7e@cmccvb (Vax... bitnet) | Software | opinions, alone. | | a student at Carnegie Mellon U. | | Void where prohibited. | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------