Re: keyboard

[bratsche dfw net]

It should be intelligent enough to recognize when a key is already taken.
If the key's current setting is not customizable for some reason, the user
would be prevented from setting Alt-O. Otherwise it should create a dialog
and warn the user that his current Alt-O setting is about to be removed if
he sets that value to "_File Open".

Cody

On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Todd Showalter wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Ted Lemon wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > You pull down a menu with your mouse, and while you are over let's say
> > > "File Open...  Ctrl-O", you just press the key combination you want to
> > > bind with that menu item.  So if you press Alt-O, the menu item
> > > changes to "File Open...  Alt-O", and Alt-O is now your shortcut for
> > > File Open.
> > 
> > That's *excellent*!   Are these changes persistent across invocations?
> 
>     What if Alt-O is already bound?  For that matter, what if the
> application itself (cf: emacs) uses it for something else?
> 
> 							Todd.
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