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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)