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Re: Function keys intercepted by operating system. How toavoid?

email@hidden wrote:
I would posit that they *are* used by application software . . . the Finder Application.
. . .
I think that the designers of the original Macintosh OS, . . .were free to "Think Different" and did. They
assigned the "bare" Function Keys in ways that would directly benefit users of their OS and GUI, ergo, the
application that [sic] are being utilized by is the Finder. . . . 

EXCEPT

The original Macintosh, from the Mac 128 through the Mac Plus, HAD no numbered function keys. Function keys are not only not idiomatic to the Macintosh; they are indeed totally ANTI-idiomatic, and as I recall, they were added to the ADB keyboards under protest, in order to support ported applications that use them.

Moreover, the Finder's status as "just another application" was apparent even back in the days when a 1M Mac Plus was considered top-of-the-line, back when, rather than booting to the Finder, you could set up a floppy disk to boot to MacWrite, or MacDraw, or whatever. And if it IS "just another application," then it has no business intercepting function keys from being processed by the application that has keyboard focus.

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JHHL
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