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


JHHL, et al:

I would posit that they *are* used by application software . . . the Finder Application.

I think that there is a different environment in existence within Windows with regard to Function Keys. The reason for this *could be* the fact that Windows grew out of DOS (in a very simplistic view I realize). Its "first adoption" within environments that were totally business oriented, many supported by mainframes, may have lead the developers of Windows and many other applications to eschew the "bare" (if you will) Function Keys. Instead these developers automatically used modifier keys with the Function Keys when they incorporated them into their applications - witness ALT-F4, the ubiquitous shortcut for closing windows within the Windows OS.

I think that the designers of the original Macintosh OS, having no particular homage owed to mainframes, or any other "legacy", non-GUI OS, were free to "Think Different" and did. They assigned the "bare" (there's that usage again) Function Keys in ways that would directly benefit users of their OS and GUI, ergo, the application that are being utilized by is the Finder. Under OS X this has become more apparent simply because the Finder's true nature as an application is easily revealed.

Sorry for going on, if you feel that I have. Otherwise, hope this helps,

Martin Maher
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java-dev-bounces+martin.maher=email@hidden wrote on 04/01/2005 11:08:02 AM:

> email@hidden wrote:
> > The first thought that pops to mind, . . .
> > would be to re-map those functions . . .
>
> Actually, our emulator already has that capability (we
> didn't think about it until *after* I'd posted the
> request, and I wasn't the one who remembered first, even
> though I designed it), but what the <censored> are a
> standard set of function keys doing on a Mac in the first
> place, if they can't be used by application software?
>
> --
> JHHL
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