> On 10 Sep 2018, at 11:06 am, Richard Charles <rcharles...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On my development machine running 10.12.6 pressing the spacebar will dismiss > a simple NSAlert. This is because in System Preferences > Keyboard > > Shortcuts > Full Keyboard Access > All Controls was selected. (For some > reason it took forever to discover this.) > > When "All Controls" is selected the control with focus will have a focus ring > drawn around it and pressing the spacebar will "click" the control with > focus. Also pressing the tab key will move the keyboard focus between > controls. > > Setting a control key equivalent to the return key will make it the default > control and it will be blue. The default control can be "clicked" by pressing > the return key.
Son of a gun. Thanks for elucidating this Richard. I guess I've had full keyboard access turned on for some time. Quite awhile ago I noticed these focus rings start showing up in alert panels, but it never occurred to me to press the space bar. I had actually been intending to file a bug report decrying the ambiguity between the focus ring and the blue backfill insofar as which control gets acted upon. (I didn't realize that these signify two different activation methods.) -b _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
