[issue24812] All standard keystrokes not recognized in IDLE dialogs on Mac

Change by Terry J. Reedy : -- nosy: -kbk, roger.serwy versions: +Python 3.9 -Python 2.7, Python 3.5, Python 3.6 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue24812] All standard keystrokes not recognized in IDLE dialogs on Mac

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: query.Query has and will mostly replace tkinter.simpledialog #27115. This is partially a duplicate with respect to Query #27621. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue24812] All standard keystrokes not recognized in IDLE dialogs on Mac

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Then either simpledialog should changed, or Idle should subclass or rewrite it to work as it should. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue24812

[issue24812] All standard keystrokes not recognized in IDLE dialogs on Mac

Mark Roseman added the comment: note that many of these are using 'simpledialog' which has that limitation -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue24812 ___

[issue24812] All standard keystrokes not recognized in IDLE dialogs on Mac

New submission from Mark Roseman: Most of the dialogs in IDLE on OS X do respond to 'Return' key as equivalent to hitting OK, and Escape to hitting Cancel. Guidelines also suggest that the Enter key (on numeric keypad) should work like 'Return', and Cmd-. (period) should work like Cancel.