Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!ucbvax!alfalfa.com!nazgul From: nazgul@alfalfa.com (Information Junkie) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif Subject: Re: Mnemonics in multiple menubars Message-ID: <910501195757.4387@sun.alfalfa.com> Date: 1 May 91 23:57:57 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: inet Organization: The Internet Lines: 17 > I have an application with a mainwindow and a modeless dialog, each having a > menubar. Mnemonics work fine as long as a modeless dialog menubar option > doesn't have a mnemonic which is the same as the mainwindow menubar option. > In that case, the mainwindow option takes precedence. I expected > that the dialog which had input focus would take precedence. Is there a way > around this? Oh boy. That's cute, I'd never noticed that. So you can use menu mnemonics from dialogs, but you can't use the keyboard accelerators. Oh joy. Alfalfa Software, Inc. | Poste: The EMail for Unix nazgul@alfalfa.com | Send Anything... Anywhere 617/646-7703 (voice/fax) | info@alfalfa.com I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's.