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Re: Clicking on a tab to switch between two tabs

Subject: Re: Clicking on a tab to switch between two tabs
From: Tim Altman
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 15:09:35 +0200
Newsgroups: opera.mac
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 03:21:40 +0000 (UTC), eravin@xxxxxxxxx (Ed Ravin)
wrote:

>From somewhere in cyberspace, tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx said:
>>On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 18:31:16 +0200, "Martin Bialasinski"
>><agr30+news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>[...]
>>>Also, I have trouble with switching tabs using the keyboard. Option TAB is  
>>>assigned to the Witch application switcher, so it is taken. I tried to  
>>>assign Control TAB and Shift Control TAB (control, not command!), but I  
>>>was not successful. What should the lines in the ini look like?
>>
>>Try 'Tab Meta' and 'Tab Shift Meta'.  Other users have reported
>>problems customizing keyboard shortcuts using Meta, though.
>
>I was one of them, but after following the non-intuitive instructions
>posted in this newsgroup (like using 'Right Meta' for Control-Rightarrow)
>I was able to get my desired shortcuts to work.
>
>>>The default Option PageDown/PageUp combination works, but I do not like  
>>>it. And I noticed, that when you hold Option PageDown and press Escape to  
>>>abort, the page "looses focus", that is, non of the shortcuts work, unless  
>>>you click into the window.
>
>That strongly resembles the bug I reported the other day:
>
> bug-181525@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - keyboard shortcuts break after alt-tab switching
>
>But it's not exactly the same - when I use Option PageDown followed by
>Escape to abort the page switching menu, none of the shortcuts work
>except for F2, which brings up the "Go to page" pop-up  - and then when
>I press Escape to clear that window, shortcuts now work.  When I hit
>the bug I reported, F2 followed by Escape doesn't recover, unless i type
>in a URL (or any garbage) into the "Go to page" window and immediately
>hit Escape to abort.  This is with Opera 8.5 on 10.3.9.

OK.  I'll see if I can reproduce this behavior and add comments to the
bug report.  Thanks!

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Tim Altman
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