Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!gatech!bloom-beacon!eru!kth.se!cyklop.nada.kth.se!news From: d88-jwa@byse.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Mac Programming Book Wanted. Message-ID: Date: 24 Mar 91 20:01:51 GMT References: <5918.27EB6EA5@stjhmc.fidonet.org> Sender: news@nada.kth.se (Mr News) Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 26 In-reply-to: Lawson.English@p88.f15.n300.z1.fidonet.org's message of 22 Mar 91 15:43:21 GMT Lawson.English@p88.f15.n300.z1.fidonet.org (Lawson English) writes: they don't follow the guidelines. For instance: the Windows habit of creating "hot-keys" in a dialog by using the first letter of the title of a button doesn't work well on the Mac as certain cmd-key combinations are already taken, such as cmd-c for Copy or cmd-o for Hmmm... Who said anything about CMD ? Alpha (the editor, am I getting boring about it yet ?) lets you press buttons by pressing the first key _without_ cmd. This only works in non-edit-text dialogs, tho' Of course ESC or CMD-. should Cancel (It doesn't in THINK C ! BOOOO !) but you could also do as I do in Mac NetHack: change the default button by pressing tab or space (Well, we haven't talked to the HI group at Apple about this yet - we're on the run from the Thought Police :-) (Oh, and NetHack dialogs surely accept letters for buttons) Happy hacking h+@nada.kth.se Jon W{tte -- "The IM-IV file manager chapter documents zillions of calls, all of which seem to do almost the same thing and none of which seem to do what I want them to do." -- Juri Munkki in comp.sys.mac.programmer