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 12:18 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 you are limited to the first letter of the button and >> therefore can not have buttons that start with the same letter. > > Yes, that's very true, I should have added that statement for a clearer > explanation. AFAIK It works because it's a system command, not a LC command. > The same shortcuts (cmd+ fist letter) usually work on many dialogue boxes on > the Mac, and have done for may years. Win underlines any system shortcuts > that are available so Win users are more used to seeing this. > > Like Dr. Hawkins, I also noticed that just pressing the first letter > sometimes works, but it's not reliable and I haven't spent much time > analysing this to determine what causes the unreliability. > > Paul > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
