I'm using an old version of Visual Studio that provides only the 'interactive' method for setting tab stops. Is there anyway to clear all the tab stops before setting them? Or anyway to exclude a given control from having a tab stop?
Added 10-sept-2009
Part of my problem was confusing tab stop order and tab stops. I naively assumed setting tab stop order, set a tab stop hence much confusion. Thanks for pointing out that tab stops are set in the property box.
You are not clear about your specific VS version, but as far as I remember (back to VC6) you automatically assign the tab order if you simply click once on each control in your desired order. There is usually no need to reset them beforehand.
This hint from a VC6 tutorial might be helpful:
To adjust the tab order of your
controls, you can choose the Tab Order
command from the Layout menu and click
the controls in the order that you
want them to be tabbed. If you have a
complicated dialog box and only want
to change the tab order of a few
controls, you can take a little
shortcut by holding the Ctrl key down
and selecting the last control that
tabs properly before selecting the
controls that tab incorrectly.
Clicking an empty spot in the dialog
box, or pressing Enter, will exit the
tab order mode.
To prevent a control from being
reached using the Tab key, clear the
Tab stop checkbox on the control's
property page.
If you want to change the tab behaviour programmatically, look for the WS_TABSTOP windows style.
Open the dialog whose tab order you want to change. Press Ctrl + D. On the dialog you will see numbers next to each control which indicate the tab order for that control. Click the controls in the order you want the tab order to go.
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In macOS vscode, when I close a file that has some changes made to it, I get a dialog on top. How do i navigate the buttons here with just my keyboard?
The screenshot doesn't show it but it defaults to the Save button.
I don't know if VS Code follows normal Mac conventions but, if it does, Return should select the default button (Save, presumably); Escape should cancel; and Command-D or possibly Command-Delete should select Don't Save.
Also, if you have System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Full Keyboard Access set to "All controls", the Tab key should move focus among the buttons and Space will press the one with focus. If you don't normally have that set that way, Control-F7 will toggle it on.
let me put it simple.
With Firefox 29,
I add a check box control next to the back & forward button in the toolbar "nav-bar".
It works. I mean I can do check and uncheck, and the javascript code will be triggered.
Now, my problem: after I checked the checkbox in one tab, I found that the checkbox in all other tabs are also checked, and if I uncheck any of them, the checkbox in all other tabs will be unchecked.
Why they change as one? I would like them to be unrelated or separated. In another word, I want the control (checkbox or button or label etc) to be tab-specific.
All suggestions are appreciated.
So, after struggling with horrible interface choices of Xcode 4, I'm finally on 5.1.1.
The tabs became almost usable. Double clicking can be configured to open a file in a new tab. Good. Double clicking another file opens it in a new tab. Good. Double clicking first file again switches to previously open tab. Good! Double clicking first file while it is open in current tab opens a second tab with that file. Ok, I can live with that, since from there on they just switch from one to another.
So far a surprisingly sane behavior.
Unless you make a single click in the navigation panel by mistake. Single click opens whatever you click in the current tab, all logic and reason be damned.
The question is, how to change single click behavior to "Use separate tab" (or however Xcode refers to that behavior)?
Is there any way to disable single clicks from doing anything at all aside from highlighting the selection?
There's no option to disable the single-click behavior. Two options that get you close to your desired behavior are:
Use a single separate window for most of your tabs. Use a "main" window that has the file navigator visible, and a separate "work" window with the file navigator hidden. If you want to add a tab to the work window, create it in the main window and then drag it's tab over to the work window. This is an extra step, but you'll never have a single click change any of the tabs that you care about (thought it'll still change the primary or focussed editor in the main window, depending on your settings).
Use separate windows for each file. There's a preference setting that lets you create windows instead of tabs when you double-click a file in the file navigator. Use Mission Control instead of the tab bar to navigate between your files.
How can I set the position for the output prompt in Visual Studio 2008 when debugging is started?
I have two screens and I want the prompt to always appear on my second screen so that I still can see the code on the primary screen, I have tried some tricks but I haven't got it right.
I'm not sure what you mean by "outputprompt". If you are creating a command line application and are talking about the command window, then
position the window where you want it (you can pause you app if it closes too fast)
click on its system menu, then click on properties
on the third tab of the appearing properties dialog, enter the values you like (be sure to uncheck automatic window positioning)
close the dialog by clicking OK
in the dialog that appears, pick the option that changes the link, instead of just changing the current window (I'm not sure either a German or English translation of the options is helpful for you)
HTH.
I just got into the office, and booted up my computer to work on my current project.
I hopped into a class file, and selected (through mouse highlighting) a group of events to delete.
What happened though was it only erased one character. Wondering what happened, I clicked at the beginning of the selection and re-highlighted the text to delete it again.
So i just clicked randomly in the middle of the file, and it highlighted from the beginning of the first selection all the way to where I clicked in the middle.
I have rebooted both VS, the computer and insured that sticky keys and all other "accessibility" software was turned off.
UPDATE
When I click shift and try to manually highlight with my arrow keys, the cursor doesn't even move.
UPDATE
When I click escape from the selection it goes to the search drop down:
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The same thing happened to me, I held down the shift key for a few seconds then while still holding it down I clicked anywhere in the open page in Visual Studio, and voilá, my mouse click was back to normal.
I imagine I had unwittingly activated some kind of keyboard shortcut but not sure which
I had this same problem too. I believe I found the solution: check your keyboard options.
Go under tools -> options, under the Environment subtree, click 'Keyboard'. Then, you will see a dropdown with the label "Apply the following additional keyboard mapping scheme". If you select "Brief" from this, you get the keyboard behavior as described. I'm not exactly sure what "Brief" refers to, but it certainly isn't familiar to me.
Change the keyboard layout back to (default) or another one to get the behavior you expect.
Reinstalled VS and now everything is better.