Re: Reserved Accel Keys

[Bernhard Herzog <herzog online de>]

Vlad Harchev <hvv@hippo.ru> writes:

> On 22 Aug 2000, Bernhard Herzog wrote:
> 
> > Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> writes:
> > 
> > > The reason is that Delete removes the accelerator if you're editing
> > > accelerators by pulling down the menu and hitting a key.
> > 
> > How about this:
> > 
> > If the user hits Delete when the mouse is over a menu entry there are
> > two cases: 
> > 
> >     1. the entry has an accelerator -> remove it
> > 
> >     2. The entry doesn't have an accelerator -> set it to Delete
> > 
> > Or would this be too confusing?
> 
>  Isn't it obvious to you that 'delete' will loose its meaning (of
> deleting accels) in this case?

No.

> Instead of deleting accel it will call
> the action of the menuitem assigned in case 2.

No, it won't. Accels loose their special meaning in a menu. Otherwise
you couldn't reassign them just by assigning it to a new menu entry;
you'd have to delete the old binding explicitly and then assign it to
the new entry.

I think it would work.


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