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Re: keyboard shortcut problems


On Sep 29, 2004, at 11:54 AM, Emile Schwarz wrote:


I read once more Henry’s message (just before hitting the reply button) and definitely, he is right, but his description apply to a Windows machine. Using Alt (instead of Option) make me feels that. Running Windows XP, the user press Alt were the Macintosh user press Command. Here is the lying :(.
I may be wrong, but when the software runs under Mac OS, the keyboard shortcuts must use Command instead of Alt (Mac OS says Option where Windows says Alt).

Actually, Control under windows is more equivalent to Command (aka Meta) in OSX, that is, as an accelerator key modifier. Java will handle this under the covers for you if you use Toolkit.getMenuShortcutKeyMask().

Alt in Java is used as a focus accelerator (meaning the alt-KEY combination moves focus somewhere) regardless of platform (native w32 apps sometime use this, most OSX apps don't). In general, Alt under w32 is used for keyboard traversal rather than for accelerator keys, although there's nothing to stop it from being used as one.

X11-based systems (linux, un*x) used to use Alt as an accelerator, but most UIs now seem to follow w32 usage.

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