Date: Thu, 1 Jun 95 12:40:29 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Cc: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, julian@ref.tfs.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [On the new Install] Message-ID: <9506011840.AA03152@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199506010013.TAA21403@bonkers.taronga.com> from "Peter da Silva" at May 31, 95 07:13:46 pm
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> Ah-ha! > > It's motif semantics. "Go to next entry" is "Tab" and return is "OK". > > One of the many ways Motif sucks. You either have to live with it and tell > people not to hit RETURN until the screen is complete, or make RETURN act > like TAB and use some other key for RETURN. You are supposed to use 'tab' and hit 'space' when the tab group that contains only that button is selected. To avoid the 'return' behaviour, you have to not set a default button (and this has to be done explicitly, since the first button in the button list is default). The 'return' behaviour is also widget-dependent; for instance, if you have a multi-line text input widget, it will go to the next line in the widget instead. So just changing it to a tab is bogus. Alternately, you could expect users to understand Motif/MS Windows semantics by virtue of previous exposure. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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