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Bug 6543

Summary: Missing mnemonics in preference pages
Product: [Eclipse Project] PDE Reporter: Tod Creasey <Tod_Creasey>
Component: UIAssignee: Dejan Glozic <dejan>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: n.a.edgar
Version: 1.0Keywords: accessibility
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 2000   
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Description Tod Creasey CLA 2001-12-04 08:53:39 EST 
The three child pages of the PDE preferences (Advanced Tracing, Java Build Path 
Control and Runtime Tracing) have no mneumonics on any of thier widget labels 
and as a result many of the fields require use of a mouse to access them.
Comment 1 Dejan Glozic CLA 2001-12-04 09:38:45 EST 
This is not entirely correct: since fields are regular SWT widgets, they can be 
accessed using TAB and arrow keys. What mnemonics (not mneumonics :-) give you 
is DIRECT access to widgets (compared to N tabs to reach the widget). We will 
fix this, but just for the record, you DO NOT need a mouse to use the dialog, 
it is just faster when mnemonics are present.
Comment 2 Tod Creasey CLA 2001-12-04 09:46:51 EST 
In the case of PDE preferences there are some entry fields inaccessible to the 
keyboard without a mouse.

Select Advanced Tracing and then tab to Core Resource Management.
You will see two entries in the Tracing Options.
Now hit tab to get to the Tracing Options
A combo box will open on the second one.  Hitting tab again will do nothing  - 
hitting the up or down arrow keys will change the value of the combo box.

You can get out of it by selecting Shift tab to back up but there is no way to 
ever select the first entry in Tracing Options without the mouse.
Comment 3 Dejan Glozic CLA 2002-03-13 15:52:36 EST 
All PDE preferences now have mnemonics.