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On 28 Jul 2004 08:37:53 -0700, Andrue Cope [TeamB] 
   <no.spam@spammy.com> wrote:

> 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?

I want that as well (and disabling the arrow keys).

> [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.

I am certainly not addicted to using a mouse (I don't like the things at
all), but I want to use sensible keys to do the things I want in an
application.  Buttons can be activated with the hotkey letter, I want to
use space (and the arrow keys) for navigation (and in at least one
application to control the playing of sound files).

> 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 :)

Ever used a graphics browser?  Or an editor?  Keys like tab, space and
the arrow keys don't do the same thing there, and I doubt if anyone
would want them to do so whether it's a 'standard' UI feature or not.

Chris C