Hi there.
I'm running Boinc 7.8.4 (and other versions) on El Capitan.
The Boinc Manager does not use default keys as usual on Macs.
If you define a default button, pressing [enter] should activate it while [escape] should cancel.
When I open the 'Boinc Diagnosemeldungen einstellen'-window, 'abbrechen' (cancel) is defined as default, but pressing [enter] does nothing. Instead [escape] closes it. This is quite Mac-unlike. Usually the default button should be [OK], activated by pressing [enter] with [escape] activating [Cancel].
The preferences settings are similar: When I open them to have a look, [enter] should work on [OK]. It doesn't unless I tick an input field. It shouldn't be active if it can't be used by pressing [enter].
Please look into this.
Thanks.

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Greetings, Jens

Reply from the developer

This has been true since at least version 7.2.42 (the oldest version I tested today.) Again, I suspect this is at least in part due to the behavior of wxWidgets.

While it should be possible to fix all these issues, I am doing only the most critical maintenance on BOINC these days (i.e., fixing only "show stoppers"), and we don't have any other volunteers coding BOINC for the Mac. If the poster knows of anyone willing to work on this, BOINC is open source and anyone is welcome to contribute. I'm sorry I can't offer more help.

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