From: William Smargiassi <bsmargiassi@...>
Date: 2006-07-29T21:39:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby::Tk on OS X event binding hint

I would think you never want to bind Command-<key> and Command-Shift- 
<key> to the same function. The two key shortcuts should do something  
different (but probably related) like Command-S is save, but Command- 
Shift-S is save-as.

bill

On Jul 28, 2006, at 10:42 , Morton Goldberg wrote:

> On Jul 28, 2006, at 8:50 AM, Matthew Smillie wrote:
>
>> Just as an interface technicality, command-shift-q is a global  
>> shortcut for logging out, not for quitting an application.
>
> I've done the testing that I should have done before my first post  
> on this thread, and just as another technicality, a ruby  
> application, not the system, gets the command-shift-q event when  
> the app's window is active, so inside a ruby app, Cmnd+Shift+q  
> _will_ work as a quit command with the binding
>
>    Tk.root.bind('Command-Q') {exit}
>
> But that doesn't make it a good idea; it would be poor design  
> practice to use such a binding.
>
> Regards, Morton
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