Until recently, I used alt-esc to place a Tab key [Chr(9)] into a TextField / TextArea.
Many years ago, I used another shortkey, but I was forced to change because of a new OS version tooks it for itself.
Now, Cocoa use it to display some text processor help and I need to change once more (a bug report of mine was rejected: in design feature by Cocoa).
Do you have some suggestions ?
Note: In that project, I use the Tab key to move in the Control array (Two TextArea, One Canvas, one ListBox and I skip one TextField), but I also need to place Tabs in my TextAreas.
alt-esc works for me in TextArea in OSX
if Keyboard.AltKey then
if asc(key) = 27 then
me.SelText = me.SelText + chr(9)
return true
end if
end if
Hi Axel,
thanl you for your kind answer.
What does not works is not esc-tab, but what it produces
esc-tab shows a selected word (here is is je), and sometimes a Tab is issued, sometimes it is not.
AND: it does that in my standalone applications too.
Get an eye there in Feedback: 37839 - Strange behavior when typing Option-Esc in IDE fields.
After a second reading (sometimes this one is the best), I understand your code. I have to compare it to what I wrote.
And, yes, this is an OS X stuff.
What is wrong with Tab itself without modifier ? Is it not what a user would expect ?