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Re: setting a button key to be ESC

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From: Eric P. Scott
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1992 02:31
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In article <Bu68tK.37L@cs.psu.edu> grio@colossus.cs.psu.edu
	(Daniel L Grillo) writes:
>I was hoping there was a way to use ESC, without subclassing Panel.

From Chapter 3 of the UI Guidelines:

	For UNIX compatibility, the Esc key is used to complete
	file names (as described in the following section).  It
	should not be used any other way in the user interface.
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

They tell you not to do this.  They've made it difficult for you
to circumvent.  Must you be so obstinate?

					-=EPS=-
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From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
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