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- From: wille@june.cs.washington.edu (Robert Wille)
- Subject: Re: A Style Guide Question
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.225722.1941@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
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- Organization: University of Washington Computer Science
- References: <17474@pitt.UUCP> <mwm.2nu7@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us> <37104@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1992Nov17.222803.11401@sophia.smith.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 22:57:22 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.222803.11401@sophia.smith.edu>, jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (John Fieber) writes:
- |> However, there are many instances where the logical action of the
- |> <enter> key is to activate another string gadget. Several
- |> programs I use take the approach of having <alt-enter>
- |> de-activate the string gadget *without* activating the next.
- |>
- |> I frequently find myself doing unexpected things on the mac
- |> because the <enter> key almost always takes some drastic action
- |> while the <tab> key is used to move around between string
- |> gadgets. 2.0 now provides for tabbing through string gadgets as
- |> well and I suppose with conditioning I could get used to that.
- |> But, having the <enter> key do anything more drastic than
- |> deactivate a string gadget or activating the next would require a
- |> lobotomy to get used to. For me <enter> means "I'm done typing
- |> that one thing", not "I'm done with everything in the requester,
- |> now place my file into a black hole".
-
- I have to agree that for requesters having two or more string gadgets,
- Enter is not a good choice for a key to perform the default action. It
- should simply go on to the next gadget. However, for a simple requester
- having a string gadget and OKAY and CANCEL buttons, it is incredibly
- annoying to have to press Enter and then click on Okay.
-
- |> -john
- |>
- |> --
- |> === jfieber@sophia.smith.edu ================================================
- |> ======================================= Come up and be a kite! --K. Bush ===
-
- --
- Robert
-
- There is evidence that the brain is like a computer. If that's true,
- then there really aren't any stupid people. Just people running DOS.
-