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- Date: Wed, 27 Jul 94 16:25:10 +0200
- From: Vincent.Lefevre@lip.ens-lyon.fr
- Message-Id: <9407271425.AA14287@lip.ens-lyon.fr>
- To: gem-list@world.std.com
- Subject: GEM, etc.
- Precedence: bulk
-
- Evan:
-
- In your button code (very useful, thanks), you set the high byte of
- the second parameter. Is it a GEM feature or an accident? (The Atari
- Compendium doesn't say anything about it, nor the other books I have.)
-
- > I thought it would be one file, with the format :
- >
- > appname:action:key
- >
- > With various extensions where key could be some other variable for things
- > taht aren't key-short-cuts. Wildcards are valid, so global keys would
- > be done with '*', as in :
- >
- > *:Open:^O
-
- Agreed, but:
- I'd replace the character ":" by blanks (i.e. space or tab).
- I'd add a 4th field: the string which will appear in the menu (before
- the shortcut). For instance, we could have:
- * OPEN ^O Open
- (standard) or
- * OPEN ^O Ouvrir
- (for French people)
-
-
- Timothy:
-
- > Secondly, if anyone uses Ctrl-A for select all, they're going to be in a
- > mess without a lot of hacking. It's just TOO EASY to hit Ctrl-A, and I
- > don't want something as dangerous as Select-All assigned to it. It's
- > perfectly logical.
-
- It's keyboard dependent, and keyboard dependent arguments shouldn't be
- taken into account in a standard. Moreover SELECT ALL is dangerous only
- when you are using the block=cursor method and you don't have the UNDO
- feature.
-
-
- Vincent Lefevre
- (on holiday from tomorrow to Aug. 3)
-