On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 02:16:15PM +1000, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> > Except, as you've pointed out, that it's used for the Escape key
> > handling. If you catch 'close', the escape key works. Otherwise it's
> > ignored. I like making it go away with an escape key, so I'll keep the
> > close handler.
> 
> Fair enough. The Escape key binding seems pretty non-intuitive to me for
> the About box (it's just a mysterious accelerator with no mouse
> equivalent), so I tend to ignore it. But your view has validity too.

In modal dialogs, Escape is conventioned as the "get the hell out of
here" key, so it's a good usability practice to have it close the dialog
(or any other modal dialog, for that matter).

Take care,
--
Christian Reis, Senior Engineer, Async Open Source, Brazil.
http://async.com.br/~kiko/ | [+55 16] 261 2331 | NMFL
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