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Re: setting a button key to be ESC

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From: Eric Bennett
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1992 11:40
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In article <Bu33xu.7x3@cs.psu.edu> grio@cs.psu.edu writes:
>
>In the IB inspector, I'd like to set a button's key equivalent to be ESC.
>I can't get it to work.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>--
> Dan Grillo   grio@cs.psu.edu   [NeXTmail, PrivateMail, MIME welcome]

One way I've found to do this is to open a terminal window and type:

~ % echo -n a | tr a '\033' | copy

Then in IB paste into the Key: field of the attributes inspector and press
OK.  You won't be able to see the character (looks like a space) but it'll
work.  Another useful code is \177 for the Delete key.
(Oh, and make that window a panel.)

				- Eric B.
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