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Re: setting a button key to be ESC

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From: Scott Hess
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1992 16:05
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In article <1992Sep7.150548.8473@next.cambridge.ma.us>
	simsong@next.cambridge.ma.us (Simson L. Garfinkel) writes:
>In article <Bu68tK.37L@cs.psu.edu>
>	grio@colossus.cs.psu.edu (Daniel L Grillo) writes:
>> I should have been more explict.  A button in a _Panel_ can have a key
>> equivalent that is not a command key.   Keys like "d" and "." work fine.
>> I was hoping there was a way to use ESC, without subclassing Panel.
>
>What makes you think this?  NeXT's Calculator demo?  Their Panel
>subclass turns all keypresses into Command keypresses.

What gave it away to me is when I ran IB, pulled in a Panel, but
a Button on it, made the Key for it a 'd', and then did a Run/Test.
Pressing d caused the Button to flash, regardless of whether I had
Command down or not.  [Really, try it, it works.]

Later,
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From: scott@nic.gac.edu (Scott Hess)
Date: 7 Sep 92 16:05:40
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