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Re: Windows spacebar hotkey

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From: Andrue Cope [TeamB]
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:37
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Jim Zirbes wrote:

> Windows implements the spacebar as a hotkey for the active button on
> a form or dialog box. Is there a way to disable this function?

[space] is actually the Windows-standard shortcut key for "click the
currently active control" and I use it a lot together with the arrow
keys and/or tab to navigate around dialog boxes. Not everyone in the
World is addicted to using a mouse and quite a few of us prefer to view
the mouse as an additional input. Any software that takes away a
shortcut that I have learnt over the last decade or more is probably
going to be uninstalled in short order.

Obviously it's your design and your choice but I think you ought to
reconsider whether changing a fundamental aspect of Windows' UI
behaviour is a good idea :)
-- 
Andrue Cope [TeamB]
[Bicester, Uk]
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