There is another approach to avoiding keyboard conflicts that I always try to
stick to; using the numpad insert key whenever possible.This helps me remember
when I'm using JFW commands. Another helpful option is to separate the numeric
keypad from the extended keypad and continue to cluster the JFW commands on
the
numeric pad while keeping standard window and application commands on the
extended keys. As the number of keystroke commands and features goes up in
JFW,
comfortable combinations will begin to disappear... then there are those pesky
left and right window keys... hey, with a little thought, we shouldn't be
having keyboard conflicts at all!
At 09:41 AM 5/7/99 -0400, you wrote:
>>I am surprised so many people are making this more difficult than it
>>needs to be.� Why are you using special keys in combo boxes?� You can
>>just arrow up and down in them without doing anything special.
>
>Actually, this is sometimes not true. First of all, Alt+Up and Down Arrows
>in combo boxes are Windows standard keys. The special keys are the JFW read
>by sentence scripts. In hindsight, it was a pretty poor choice to put these
>special scripts on the standard Windows combo box keys. It is true that by
>pressing the down arrow first the navigation of certain combo boxes seems to
>be enabled, though I'm not sure whether this is an artifact of JFW.
>
>But sometimes it's really hard to arrow in combo boxes. In Juno, for
>instance, there's a folder combo box, but every time you arrow in either
>direction you automatically tab to the message view panel. You have to
>shift+tab for every cotton picking folder you don't want, and some of those
>folders take a LONG time to open when they have lots of messages in them. I
>solved this by automatically opening the combo box whenever it has focus.
>this allows us to arrow more reliably with the PC cursor (at least at
>times), and very reliably in the dropdown listbox using the Jaws cursor.
>
>So, you can use just plain arrows if they work. Sometimes you'll be
>successful.
>
>Lee
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