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Ned Konz ned at squeakland.org
Fri Nov 26 08:27:45 UTC 2004


On Thursday 25 November 2004 7:59 pm, Chris Crowley wrote:
> I'm using Fedora Core 1 (Linux Kernel 2.6). The problem, for me, has
> nothing to do with the shift key. If I press 'Caps Lock' and left-click
> in the world, I get an unusuable different menu as below.

What the problem is is that:

* Caps Lock does the same thing as holding the Shift key down, and

* Squeak responds differently to shift-click than click in some places (like 
the ones you mentioned). Likewise, middle-button, control-left button, 
alt-left button, etc.

If you shift-click (or by extension click with the Caps Lock on), different 
things happen. Including opening an editor on StringMorphs and (by 
inheritance) MenuItemMorphs. Which isn't really very useful, FWIW, and 
probably should be suppressed.

> Similarly if i 
> press the wheel mouse middle 'button' in a workspace window context, I
> get an unusable 2nd page of that context's menu. And, within the
> workspace window, I can no longer control the selection of text, not
> that I could do anything with the text via the now unusable menu.

Once a menu is displayed, it gobbles up the keystrokes if you have enabled 
keystroke menu navigation.

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Ned Konz
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