Using escape key in finder to navigate backwards

wondering why this function was removed. in mountain lion i could navigate backwards in a finder window by hitting the "escape" key. each press of the button would take me backwards through my finder path the same way that i came into whatever folder i was in. like a bread trail through the woods, it was really nice.
any way to reactivate in mavericks? why would you take away something so simple and functional?

Why always the best options are removed in the latest version, It happens with Adobe always, now Apple joined it seems.
Pressing Escape let me out from selected folder in Finder window, it helps me move around top and bottom folder with help of arrow keys.
Now, it's uneasy to come out of the folder without mouse.
Whats a breakthrough here, any command which activate this function back?

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Using the Escape key in simulations and assessments

I have recently recorded a simulation/assessment that needs to use the Escape key to close a pop-up window and returns to the main application window. The recording has not been an issue; however, using Escape with failure messages is proving to be tricky. Here's what I have discovered while resording my sim/assess, along with my questions:
When I press Escape, Captivate captures this keystroke as a shortcut attached to a Click Box. This works on the assessment side, but fails to produce a failure message on the assessment side when the user does not press the Escape key.
I need to produce a failure message when the user does not press Escape.
Can I storethe unicode value of Escape in a TEB variable and then use an if . . . else statement to either advance to the next slide (success action) or produce a caption that mimics a failure caption? If so, how would I write this item?
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Since you have deselected Allow Mouse Click for your click box, you've effectively made it mandatory to use keystrokes to trigger the Success/Failure evaluation of the object. So clicking outside the box is no longer going to do anything because Allow Mouse Click is off. You'll get a failure message on this click box now for many (but not all) keystrokes that are not the one assigned.
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Using multiple key values to find data

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Exiting programs using the escape key

My team and I are design games for autistic children. One of the problems we are having is that we do not know how to quit the application using the escape key. Our team would really appreciate it if you could tell us how this is done.

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petelewis wrote:
Mr.Elendig wrote:it returns ^[a as it should.
Ah ha - okay. So you're using escapes too, rather than meta8 (this is the default, so makes sense). Yeah, I got it working doing that, but had to adapt my .vimrc to get it to acknowledge the ^[ as "alt". Didn't you, or did a simple map of e.g. <A-a> suffice?
Are you running it in screen/tmux btw? and what is your TERM set to?
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Re: Using Alt-Key combinations

Unfortunately this happens not only with Alt-Key combinations. It also
happens with the ordinary F10 key: Windows activates the menu and then
Forte gets the FKey event. The problem is that now the user has to press
ESC to deactivate the menu and continue normal processing. There is no
known cure yet...
Tony Elmore wrote:
>
We are attempting to use Alt-Key combinations for a shortcut key combination
for push buttons using the SetAsFunctionKey method and FunctionKeyPress
event. When we press the Alt-Key combination, it appears that Windows is
trying to find a menu item with that shortcut combination or a button with
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The application will work fine, but the beep is not only annoying, but also
is misleading for those individuals using accessibility tools like screen
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Has anyone found any viable solutions to this problem?--
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petelewis wrote:
Mr.Elendig wrote:it returns ^[a as it should.
Ah ha - okay. So you're using escapes too, rather than meta8 (this is the default, so makes sense). Yeah, I got it working doing that, but had to adapt my .vimrc to get it to acknowledge the ^[ as "alt". Didn't you, or did a simple map of e.g. <A-a> suffice?
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Yeah, I thought that too and though I do run it in tmux usually, I've been testing it both with and without (TERM is set to screen-256color BTW) and it made no difference. Still, unless I specifically map the ^[ to alt in vim, it doesn't work. With meta8 it works so long as the locale is not UTF-8.
Guess I've got a workaround for now, but it would be nice if meta8 and utf-8 worked nicely together.
Thanks.
Could you please show how your vimrc looks like? I have the same problem and I'm interested in your workaround.

AppleScript to press Escape key (3x) for Excel

Hi all,
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Now I've found out that pressing the escape key on my keyboard activates the following buttons on the Excel message about the links:
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I have absolutely no experience using AppleScript.Is there a way to make a AppleScript that presses the escape key three times, so that Excel just opens my file?
Thanks in advance

Pressing the Escape key is trivial:
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Escape Key messed up big time with my app. To name the
problems, there were three major bugs possible to occur when I
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Projector) :
1. Some animations (sprite) drew back to frame 1.
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to call certain Custom Functions. And in some other cases, it
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making that game not playable when it happened.
3. It also made some error such as :
Handler not found in Object. #play
I knew it's gotta be something to do with my Flash Sprite,
but to surprise me, I found out that no keydown script should be
running when that error occured.
In my conclusion, these things related to my pressing ESCAPE
key repeatedly when playing the app.
Is there anyone else who has experienced the same problem
with me? Is there a solution this? Maybe I can lock the Escape key.
But, hey, I need the Escape key to let user Skip certain parts of
my game.

quote:
Originally posted by:
wherold
look in your documentation under "exitlock".
No, wherold. It was not exitLock. I already set it to False.
Now I know that the sprite that drew back to frame 1 was my
fault. But, how the Escape key messing up with Custom Functions
still amaze me. I managed to find a solution: using baDisableKeys
at certain events in the game. -_-
:) Wolfgang

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