Bringing up an item's Properties via KB causes a system beep
Bringing up an item's Properties via KB causes a system beep
I noticed something minor in 7.00.0020. If you have a file or folder selected, and you hit Alt-Enter in order to bring up the Properties of that item, XY generates a system beep. The same action in Windows Explorer brings it up silently, as does doing it in XY via the context menu. It's only the KB shortcut that causes it.
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I almost never use this KS but just tried it on both 20 & 21 vers and they both beep here...I vaguely recall something about this beep thing from long ago, but unable to check it now...
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Re: Bringing up an item's Properties via KB causes a system
Last time I tried to fix this is years ago, but I don't think I'm smarter now. Certainly one of the most embarassing flaws in XY. Thanks for pointing at it.
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Based on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3662 ... yskeypress and http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... S.85).aspx it seems to be a result of a keyboard shortcut which activates the menu but does not correspond to any valid acccess key.
Could you have these keys return a MNC_CLOSE instead of MNC_IGNORE?
Could you have these keys return a MNC_CLOSE instead of MNC_IGNORE?
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Re: Bringing up an item's Properties via KB causes a system
Nice idea, but it failed and I can quote somebody from the web who failed too:TheQwerty wrote:Based on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3662 ... yskeypress and http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... S.85).aspx it seems to be a result of a keyboard shortcut which activates the menu but does not correspond to any valid acccess key.
Could you have these keys return a MNC_CLOSE instead of MNC_IGNORE?
"tried adding a WM_MENUCHAR handler and returning values other than
zero -- no luck......ding "
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Oh well.. that exhausts my five minutes of searching.admin wrote:Nice idea, but it failed and I can quote somebody from the web who failed too:"tried adding a WM_MENUCHAR handler and returning values other than
zero -- no luck......ding "
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Re: Bringing up an item's Properties via KB causes a system
Yes. I spent countless hours killing the menu ding. No chance. I gave up.
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Re: Bringing up an item's Properties via KB causes a system
Thanks, but does not kill the beep.
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Re: Bringing up an item's Properties via KB causes a system
Sorry to poke a sore spot.admin wrote:Last time I tried to fix this is years ago, but I don't think I'm smarter now. Certainly one of the most embarassing flaws in XY. Thanks for pointing at it.
XYplorer is an excellent piece of work, and I'm impressed at the care you take. I've been going through a series of file managers over the last few years trying to find one that didn't drive me crazy. Mostly I found compromises that were better than Windows Explorer but still flawed. I've been using XYplorer for about a week and it seems great so far. I don't think I've seen a single bug so far. Most of the competition lasts about 2 minutes before I see something fail.
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Re: Bringing up an item's Properties via KB causes a system
No problem at all (and thanks for the praise!)! This beep really sucks, but it seems (researching the web) that nobody ever (in any programming language) could kill it in a reasonable way.
What you can do (in case you are really a hardcore keyboarder): hide the whole menu (Alt+Up). Then the beep goes away.
What you can do (in case you are really a hardcore keyboarder): hide the whole menu (Alt+Up). Then the beep goes away.
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Except that it doesn't occur in Windows Explorer. So either there is a way, or maybe you might be able to use Windows Explorer to handle that task in the background instead of doing it directly through XY?admin wrote:No problem at all (and thanks for the praise!)! This beep really sucks, but it seems (researching the web) that nobody ever (in any programming language) could kill it in a reasonable way.