Re: hotkeys for button choices in answer

2012-09-05 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Maybe a dialog is not the way to go in those circumstances. If it's a choice > between >several things that are not standard yes/no choices, perhaps a menu or radio >button >would work better? So far, I'm just using them for the second check

Re: hotkeys for button choices in answer

2012-09-05 Thread Bob Sneidar
Maybe a dialog is not the way to go in those circumstances. If it's a choice between several things that are not standard yes/no choices, perhaps a menu or radio button would work better? I have always seen dialogs as a way to interrupt the normal flow of data entry, and alert the user to a cond

Re: hotkeys for button choices in answer

2012-09-05 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tuesday, September 4, 2012, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Personally I like prompting the user click the button, using hotkeys as a > less than obvious means. I generally view amply circumstance in which the user is forced to use the mouse in the middle of a routine data entry task as a catastrophic i

Re: hotkeys for button choices in answer

2012-09-04 Thread Bob Sneidar
Personally I like prompting the user click the button, using hotkeys as a less than obvious means. Users are much less likely to make an error when clicking, as opposed to typing a key, especially a numeric one. Bob On Sep 3, 2012, at 10:10 AM, Paul Hibbert wrote: > > On 2012-09-03, at 12:1

Re: hotkeys for button choices in answer

2012-09-03 Thread Paul Hibbert
On 2012-09-03, at 12:18 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: > But this doesn't > > on mouseUp > answer "Press cmd+e for Blue, cmd+k for Black or cmd+n for Brown or > cmd+c for Cancel" with "Blue" or "Black" or "Brown" or "Cancel" as sheet > put it into fld "Field4" > end mouseUp > > It would appear that y

Re: hotkeys for button choices in answer

2012-09-03 Thread Roger Eller
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > On Monday, September 3, 2012, Kay C Lan wrote: > > > It would appear that you are limited to the first letter of the button > and > > therefore can not have buttons that start with the same letter. > > > After I wrote this, I reflexively hit a

Re: hotkeys for button choices in answer

2012-09-03 Thread Peter Haworth
Buttons have a shortcut and hint property in their Inspector palette to handle this so you can either use your own version of an answer/ask dialog or edit the IDE stack (Answer Dialog or Ask Dialog) Pete lcSQL Software On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: >

Re: hotkeys for button choices in answer

2012-09-03 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Monday, September 3, 2012, Kay C Lan wrote: > > > It would appear that you are limited to the first letter of the button and > therefore can not have buttons that start with the same letter. After I wrote this, I reflexively hit a Y for yes--and it worked. No modifiers; just the Y. But I onl

Re: hotkeys for button choices in answer

2012-09-03 Thread Kay C Lan
But this doesn't on mouseUp answer "Press cmd+e for Blue, cmd+k for Black or cmd+n for Brown or cmd+c for Cancel" with "Blue" or "Black" or "Brown" or "Cancel" as sheet put it into fld "Field4" end mouseUp It would appear that you are limited to the first letter of the button and therefore

Re: hotkeys for button choices in answer

2012-09-02 Thread Paul Hibbert
On 2012-09-02, at 9:33 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > I'm kind of surprised that I'm not tripping over them; it's been > nearly 30 years since MS had these in word 1.0 . . . > > Anyway, in an answer dialog, is there any way to have accelerator/hot > keys other then enter/escape? For example, Y for Ye

Re: hotkeys for button choices in answer

2012-09-02 Thread dunbarx
Richard. I think this has to be your own. I do not think any messages are sent when a blocking gadget is running. Craig Newman -Original Message- From: Dr. Hawkins To: How to use LiveCode Sent: Sun, Sep 2, 2012 12:34 pm Subject: hotkeys for button choices in answer I'm kind of s