jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura) (06/20/91)
Hiya -
Does anyone other than from me wish that the "cancel" button
on dialog boxes had a key equivalence? I personally wish that it
was linked to "Command-." (period). That way when I bring up a dialog
box by accident with a key stroke, I can close it from the keyboard.
Is there an easy way to do this? I doubt so.... until NeXT
puts it into the user interface.
- jiro nakamura
jiro@shaman.com
ps. I e-mailed COPS to Lothar Kaul at cs.orst.edu, if you want
to pick it up there....
--
Jiro Nakamura jiro@shaman.com
Shaman Consulting +1 607 277-1440 Voice/Fax/Data
"Bring your dead, dying shamans here!"eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) (06/21/91)
In article <1991Jun20.013219.1458@shaman.com> jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura) writes: > Does anyone other than from me wish that the "cancel" button >on dialog boxes had a key equivalence? I personally wish that it >was linked to "Command-." (period). Sorry, you can't have it. :-) Command-. is "magic"--intercepted very early on. See the documentation for NXUserAborted(). -=EPS=-
dwatola@NEXTASY2.EECS.WSU.EDU (David Watola) (06/21/91)
Eric P. Scott writes: | (Jiro Nakamura) writes: |> Does anyone other than from me wish that the "cancel" button |>on dialog boxes had a key equivalence? I personally wish that it |>was linked to "Command-." (period). | |Sorry, you can't have it. :-) | |Command-. is "magic"--intercepted very early on. actually, if you are very bold and daring (and possibly a little stupid :-) ) you can get rid of this interception. my guess is (i have not actually tried this. i don't plan to--i'm not willing to take the risk) that all you need to do is change the /_handleCommand routine in /usr/lib/NeXTstep/windowPackage.ps. this routine is the part of the window server code responsible for squirreling away command-. and taking care of command-uparrow and command-downarrow. the only reason i bothered to post this insane idea is in case someone is willing to try something like this. if anyone makes any changes at all to windowPackage.ps, i would like to hear about it. dave watola dwatola@nextasy2.eecs.wsu.edu dwatola@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu
eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) (06/21/91)
In article <9106210910.AA14352@nextasy2.eecs.wsu.edu> dwatola@NEXTASY2.EECS.WSU.EDU (David Watola) writes: > |Command-. is "magic"--intercepted very early on. > >actually, if you are very bold and daring (and possibly a little >stupid :-) ) you can get rid of this interception. More than a "little" stupid. Besides, you *do* want to be able to run under the next Software Release, right? It's a bad idea to assume that the window package isn't going to change. -=EPS=-