making the ALT key sticky
Submitted by on Monday, 3 October, 2005 - 12:41
In all other applications that I use under Windows, touching and then releasing the ALT key makes the menu bar active, with the "accelerator" keys for each main menu item underlined or highlighted.
This doesn't work under jEdit--the only way to get to a menu item (at least for mouse-phobic people like me) is to hold the ALT key down while guessing the letter for the main menu item (F for File, E for Edit, etc.).
Is this a property of jEdit, or of Java? Is there a way to fix it (and I do mean "fix", since I believe the sticky-ALT behavior is standard in MS-Windows)?
This doesn't work under jEdit--the only way to get to a menu item (at least for mouse-phobic people like me) is to hold the ALT key down while guessing the letter for the main menu item (F for File, E for Edit, etc.).
Is this a property of jEdit, or of Java? Is there a way to fix it (and I do mean "fix", since I believe the sticky-ALT behavior is standard in MS-Windows)?
