August 23rd 20, 09:43 PM
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How to swap OK and Cancel in dialog boxes?
On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 20:27:28 +0100, Snit wrote:
Wolffan wrote:
On 23 Aug 2020, Commander Kinsey wrote
(in article op.0ps315mnwdg98l@glass):
I have a major problem with Windows dialog boxes. Everything in my life is
affirmative action to the right (stereo volume control, car accelerator,
etc). Linux and Mac have OK on the right, that's fine. Even though I
virtually never use those two OSes, non-computer things in life have
ingrained it into my head that yes is on the right and no is on the left.
Almost 50% of the time I subconsciously click the wrong button in a Windows
dialog box because I expect OK to be on the right. "Do you want to save
this?" "Yes, oh no, I pressed cancel!"
There must be some utility I can use to swap these buttons over?
I suspect that you won’t want to hear it, but the default on Macs is to
have OK on the right... And, back in the days of the Resource Editor, it was
possible, though very much advised against, to dig up ResEdit (that’s
ResEdit,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ResEdit not RegEdit) and make changes
to the dialogs. I used to use ResEdit to do things like add command-key
combinations, change the names of menus, change the colours of menus, and
generally play around inside apps and system files, though only on a copy.
Many was the time that what seemed like a minor change (setting the
Finder’s menus to be black with white text, for example) proved to be a
Very Bad Idea.
I used it some. Still have keyboard layouts I made with it and they still
work on macOS.
Hasn't it always been called "MacOS"?
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