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   Message 756 of 3,070   
   August Abolins to Martin Foster   
   OpenXP noob questions   
   10 Apr 19 21:50:00   
   
   MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet d74817e2   
   REPLY: 2:310/31.3@fidonet d749b19c   
   PID: OpenXP/5.0.38 (Win32)   
   CHRS: IBMPC 2   
   Hello Martin!   
      
   ** 10.04.19 - 14:19, Martin Foster wrote to August Abolins:   
      
   MF> [snip]   
   AA>> OK.  But I don't understand WHY a simply down-arrow can't land on all of   
   AA>> the items in the menu.  The down arrow only selects either [1] Help on   
   AA>> help, or [2] Command line switches:   
      
   AA>> ÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ»   
   AA>> º                                                        º   
   AA>> º     °°°°°°°°°° = Online Help Contents = °°°°°°°°°°     º   
   AA>> º                                                        º   
   AA>> º           tab ->     Help on Help      <-via dn arrow  º   
   AA>> º                                                        º   
   AA>> º           tab ->       Hotkeys                         º   
   AA>> º                                                        º   
   AA>> º           tab -> Command line switches <-via dn arrow  º   
   AA>> º                                                        º   
   AA>> º           tab ->       Support                         º   
   AA>> º                                                        º   
   AA>> º           tab ->  Licence conditions                   º   
   AA>> º                                                        º   
   AA>> º    ... go to next cross-reference                 º   
   MF>         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^   
   MF>                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^   
      
      
      
   MF> That's because the first five items are cross-references(links) and   
   MF> the help topic is just one single page.   
      
      
   Visually, the above is just a menu/list to me.  So, using the arrows to     
   navigate would be natural.  But I understand that Tab is literally the     
   "operating" key in many places in the program.   
      
      
   AA>> It just gets a little confusing when to use the tab and when arrow keys   
   AA>> would work.  :(   
      
   MF> Welcome to the world of OpenXP :)   
      
   Yeah.. to the "mysterious" world of OpenXP.      
      
      
     ../|ug   
      
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