Bringing up an item's Properties via KB causes a system beep

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Bringing up an item's Properties via KB causes a system beep

Post by Mesh »

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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Post by serendipity »

No beeps here with KB alt+enter. hmmm wonder whats different.
btw: on 7.00.0021

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Post by j_c_hallgren »

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...
Still spending WAY TOO much time here! But it's such a pleasure helping XY be a treasure!
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Post by Muroph »

i also get a beep.
and with some others KS as well, like shift+alt+z and shift+alt+c.

on a side note, i have assigned alt+shift+s as a KS, but when i use it xy also opens the script menu.
this doesn't happen when the KS opens a dialog box (like a rename preview).

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Post by bgoodmansf »

I can confirm this problem still exists in XYplorer 12.60 with Win7/64bit. It's really annoying.

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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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Re: Bringing up an item's Properties via KB causes a system

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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? :?

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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? :?
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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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 "
Oh well.. that exhausts my five minutes of searching. :P

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Yes. I spent countless hours killing the menu ding. No chance. I gave up.

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Thanks, but does not kill the beep.

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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. ;)
Sorry to poke a sore spot.

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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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.

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Re: Bringing up an item's Properties via KB causes a system

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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.
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?

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