Escape key to dismiss dialogs

Bill Vlahos bvlahos at mac.com
Tue Feb 27 21:05:44 EST 2007


Neat solution.

I think I'll limit to just the "Cancel" button because I don't want  
the user to close the stack if they press escape in the normal window.

Thanks Dave.

Bill Vlahos

On Feb 27, 2007, at 12:06 AM, Dave Cragg wrote:

>
> On 27 Feb 2007, at 05:56, Bill Vlahos wrote:
>
>>  It is common for dialog boxes to cancel when the user presses the  
>> Esc key. Unfortunately when I press the Esc key on an ask dialog  
>> it simply enters something in the field.
>>
>> Is this a bug? How do I get the desired behavior?
>
> One way I've handled this is to put the following handler in the  
> stack script of the main stack.
>
> on escapeKey
>   if there is a button "Cancel" then
>     click at the loc of button "Cancel"
>   else if there is a button "Close" then
>    click at the loc of button "Close"
>  end if
> end escapeKey
>
> Cheers
> Dave
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