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From: russpj@microsoft.UUCP (Russ PAUL-JONES)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: switching between modeless dlg & main window w/keyboard
Message-ID: <55920@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 90 20:45:34 GMT
References: <2852@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <345@nwnexus.WA.COM>
Reply-To: russpj@microsoft.UUCP (Russ PAUL-JONES)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <345@nwnexus.WA.COM> (Michael Roper) writes:
|Carl Christofferson writes:
|
|> Does anybody know how to move from a modeless dialog box 
|> to an app's main window and vice versa using only the 
|> keyboard (user has no mouse) or if this is even possible?
|
|There is no general support within Windows for this.  If
|you need to be able to do this in your own app, you have
|to come up with your own interface and code it yourself.
|Unfortunate, to be sure.  In hDC's Windows Express, we use
|control-tab to switch between the modeless Quick Key windows
|and the main window.
|
|Michael Roper
|hDC Computer Corporation

Mike, just because you won this argument does not mean that
you should spread your propaganda on the net.  No, Windows
does not directly provide this feature, but there is a 
suggested keyboad interface, Alt+F6 (from the CUA, p. 149).
I'll still admit that Ctrl+Tab makes sense; why not implement
both?

-Russ Paul-Jones

Disclaimer:  While I work for Microsoft, I do not speak for
them.  Since I no longer work for hDC, I do not speak for them
either.