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Re: setting a button key to be ESC

#864
From: Daniel L Grillo
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 02:19
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In article <1992Sep7.150548.8473@next.cambridge.ma.us> simsong@next.cambridge.ma.us 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.

Uh, fired up IB, grabbed a Window, put 2 buttons on it.  Set keys for each.
Run it.  Non-command keys do nothing.

Move the buttons to a Panel.  Run it.  Non-command keys work.


			--Dan
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