The space bar and the answer command.

[Fermin]

Hello, please:
In the dialog box of the ANSWER command, the SPACEBAR also acts accepting the default option.
Is there any way to avoid it and limit to ENTER and RETURN keys just as it's supposed to be?
Thank you very much.

Mac and LC 8.0.1.

[dunbarx]

Yipes.

Mac and LC 6.9. I wonder if HC does this. I will check.

So, after nearly 30 years at this, I am astonished to find that the spacebar will dismiss an answer dialog as the default response.

20 years of schooling and they put you on the day shift...

Craig Newman

[Klaus]

I was also surprised to see that the SPACE bar will "click" the "OK" button!?
However there is really NOTHING in the scripts of the ASK DIALOG stack that would allow this!?

Not sure if this is a bug or not.

[dunbarx]

Klaus.

I would consider it a bug, or at the very least, un unwanted and unwarranted feature, if there could possibly be such a thing. Do you want to send this to QCC, or should I?

Craig

[Klaus]

Hi Craig,

please do, thanks!


Best

Klaus

[jacque]

It may be the user's system setting. Accessibility settings sometimes do this.

[dunbarx]

Submitted as bug 17716.

Craig

[Klaus]

Hi Jaque,

It may be the user's system setting. Accessibility settings sometimes do this.

yes, maybe, but this also happen on my machine and I have not set any of these!


Best

Klaus

[SparkOut]

It's obviously a surprise to Mac users, but it's meant to do this on Windows. And tab should switch focus between the alternate button(s).

(I just used the tab key on the keyboard to set focus from the Preview to the Submit button for this post, and submitted with the spacebar)

[FourthWorld]

It's obviously a surprise to Mac users, but it's meant to do this on Windows. And tab should switch focus between the alternate button(s).

Same with most Linux environments as well. Somewhere down the road I'll try to get some time to add the Tab key behavior, but as with the Space key we'll want to exclude OS X because it operates differently in some respects from the rest of the world.

[Fermin]

... But does not pass throug A SECOND ANSWER.

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on mouseup
   -- Getting time laps between spacebar keystrokes
   answer "Tap spacebar to get ticks... and click the mouse to finish"
   put the ticks into tCero
   put 1 into eve
   
   repeat forever 
      put "blowoff valve " & eve -- WATCH OUT! without this line, LC probably crashes in 1 or 2 minutes
      if chartonum (" ") is in the keysDown then -- wait for the spacebar
         put eve &" - "& (the ticks - tCero) into line eve of ccc ---------------------------------ACTION
         add 1 to eve  --                               Next event
         wait until the keysDown is empty -- 
      end if
      if the mouse is down then exit repeat ---------      EXIT
   end repeat
   
   answer ccc answer ccc -- THE SECOND ANSWER STAND STILL.
end mouseup