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From: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon Watte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Dialog Edit menu, display of shortcuts (was: Movable-Modal WDEF)
Message-ID: <3097@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 8 Mar 90 14:57:47 GMT
References: <39127@apple.Apple.COM> <1831@esquire.UUCP> <10672@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <10672@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
>In article <1831@esquire.UUCP> baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten)
>writes:
>>Specifically, people tend to want to cut and paste in dialog boxes and
>>are continually surprised and annoyed when they can't.  Even if it's

>I regard this as a bug.  If people are going to use ModalDialog with

>This is one of the most common bugs on the Mac, unfortunately, and it
>even crops up in Apple programs like HyperCard.  (Try pasting the name

So how about EXTENDING THE SELECTION WITH THE ARROW KEYS & SHIFT !?

Apple programs don't do this, Word & THINK do it, and I tend to
prefer the latter. I get really annoyed when trying to do it in
HyperCard (which is my main base of work) and it doesn't. And
guess why I use THINK C instead of MPW...

h+
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