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The irony that, back in the 80s, you had to get American actors to play Brits when, nowadays, it appears you have to get British actors to play Americans.
Still, I did like Magnum P.I., and his accent wasn't too bad.
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Higgins, the best character on the show IMHO.![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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"Zeus! Apollo! Patrol!"
Software Zen: delete this;
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I think that is part of the Windows text box control. Same if you press backspace in an empty text box.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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That doesn't happen on any app I've got, one's I've writren or otherwise
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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It does if you use the Win32 edit control directly. MS just disabled the beep by default in their higher level libraries. Because apparently, only Win32 is worth of the beep.
Jeremy Falcon
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Check it out. Pulled up some Win32 code of mine where I had to explicitly stop the beep. Just to preface the code so it makes sense, it's C code and I used typedefs for intrinsic types for this app so I didn't have to change out my entire app if I swap from 32, 64, whatever bits, change compilers with diff implemenations, etc. in the future.
Anyway...
static numeral CALLBACK
subprocEditControl(HWND hWnd, uint32 uMessage, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam, unumber uIdSubclass, dword dwRefData)
{
...
switch(uMessage)
{
case WM_CHAR:
if(wParam == VK_TAB) return 0;
...
}
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return DefSubclassProc(hWnd, uMessage, wParam, lParam);
}
Jeremy Falcon
modified 10-Nov-17 11:50am.
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She uses the ENTER and BACKSPACE keys interchangeably - they're close enough on the keyboard for that to be acceptable for any standard user.
Remove one or both keys from keyboard.
Problem solved.
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The app beeps when a textbox has focus and the enter key is pressed. I didn't design that 'feature' but I will have to override it.  Try it...put two textboxes in a winform and try to navigate between them using Enter or Shift+Enter. It baffles me how she manages to 'get around' in other programs using just the Enter key. 
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It it a WinForms thing specifically? My WPF apps don't to that
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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I'll be dam... It DOES do that in WinForms, but not in WPF.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Cool, good to know...I'll add it to the list of possible resolutions! Thanks for testing!
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I think WPF doesn't use the Common Controls Library, which WF uses. The beep is a part of that.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: WPF doesn't use the Common Controls Library
None of WPF's controls or dialogs use the built-in controls or dialogs. They're all emulations of the standard controls, essentially built on DirectX.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I don't know if I should tell you this, but there is some kind of bug in .NET, that happens once in a blue moon, when you use the enter key to enter text in a textbox: Every now and so often the cursor will jump to the next tab stop when you hit enter on a WPF textbox, but the text is NOT entered. If this is a WPF textbox: Good luck! I hope I didn't spoil your evening!
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Communication man.
Sometimes people don't know what they're asking for (time wise). It's up to us to tell the customer what it'll cost in time. They may be under the impression it's a 3 second change and no big deal.
Some of the biggest executives of some of the biggest companies in the world can be the nicest people ever if you just don't get so afraid to talk to them that you never communicate. This is how unrealistic expectations happen.
Communication. Communication. Communication.
Jeremy Falcon
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First response
No it should not be done because it is non standard functionality
Second response - when they express no interest in standards
It will cost $n and $n+10% every upgrade we supply to customise the application for you.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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The point still stands, explain this to them... communication. People skills. But, if it comes off as smug it'll never go over well. It's called human nature bro.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: communication. People skills.
Some of those peripheral skills a well rounded developer requires but so few of us work on. Self employed will tend to acquire these a dammed sight quicker than corporate developers.
It seems by going back to corporate I have reverted to a grumpy old bastard.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: Some of those peripheral skills a well rounded developer requires but so few of us work on. Self employed will tend to acquire these a dammed sight quicker than corporate developers.
Exactly
Mycroft Holmes wrote: It seems by going back to corporate I have reverted to a grumpy old bastard.
Been there, done that brother. 
Jeremy Falcon
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I think I would need to know more about the app to come to that conclusion.
Long ago data entry into computer applications did use the enter key. Exclusively. And data entry was a job and some people were very good at it. Fast and precise.
In terms of an app I see no reason why the enter key shouldn't be used, unless it precludes some other functionality. Which would be a cause for a problem. For example do not some text controls allow one to enter multi-line text, which requires the enter key. Seems like that could be a problem. That of course doesn't mean that it should be used instead of the Tab key.
Other than that I would also want to know what this customer represents to the company. For example if one has a very useful beta tester with a lot of domain knowledge for the target industry I would want to keep her very happy. Even with non-standard functionality (especially since non-standard for me might in fact be standard for the industry.)
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jschell wrote: I would also want to know what this customer represents to the company
This should only control how polite you are, even someone with a lot of domain knowledge should not influence an industry (software not domain) design standard. If they are your ONLY customer then that may be different otherwise you end up with a myriad of different versions to meet non standard requests.
I got the impression this is neither a high speed data entry program nor is the user particularly knowledgeable so customisation seems unreasonable.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Now, how in the world did I not consider that a user might want to use the Enter key this way?. I must be slipping! 
My thoughts exactly! Unfortunately, trying to explain standard functionality to an end user, and even to some colleagues is like talking to a wall...they believe that anything is possible...and easy...and can be done by tomorrow!
