Re: Accelerator and terminology guides?

[Calum Benson <calum benson ireland sun com>]

"Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero" wrote:

> IIRC Mac does not use fast access

True, which is why Apple presumably won't be able to sell any systems to
the government any more :)

> and Motif (NS, at least) enters "menu mode" with F10 (then you have to use arrows

This is the standard "activate menu bar" key on Windows and Java too,
and will also be implemented for gtk 2.0.  It's just that Windows and
Java also have the mnemonics for fast access on menus.

> instead of hitting some letters). The mess appeared with Windows, I
> believe, where they wanted direct keys (Ctrl) and menu keys (Alt).

Alt isn't just for fast access to menus, though-- in a Windows (or Java)
app, every labelled control in every window and dialog is supposed to
have an underlined character in its label that gives you fast access to
that control.  It's a pretty important accessibility feature.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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