From: Jon Guyer (jguyer@his.com)
Date: 10 Mar 01, 01:20 EST
From: Jon Guyer <jguyer@his.com> Subject: Re: Keys bounded to option-<key> At 10:41 PM +0900 3/9/01, Masatsugu Nagata wrote: >(On my Apple Extended U.S. keyboard, both of the left-option-key and >the right-option-key activate follows the 'Bind <o>' definition. >Are the left and right option keys really distinguished?) On some keyboards at a low level, yes, but it's not generally accessible. As you say, that's not what <e> means anyway. >Alpha cannot control the function inside dialogs' editText fields, >which is directly controlled by the Mac OS System's dialog manager. Actually not strictly true. The filter proc passed to ModalDialog allows an app to interpret keys specially. This is how Alpha can intercept command keys to choose buttons (or just the keys without command if there are no editable fields). Skimming over Alpha's filterProc, we /may/ be able to implement this in Alpha 8. Until then... >You can use Fabrizio Oddone's freeware 'Forward Delete' System Extension >or Alex Levi Montalcini's shareware 'Better Edit Keys' Control Panel, >which can enable the forward-delete-key (and, other keys, too, with >Better Edit Keys) in System's text engine (that's used in dialogs' >editText fields). -- Jonathan E. Guyer <http://www.his.com/jguyer/> _______________________________________________ AlphaTcl-developers mailing list AlphaTcl-developers@lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alphatcl-developers