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Re: Function keys intercepted by operating system. How to avoid?

Yeah, I think Apple really went into dangerous territory when they co-opted F9-F12 for Expose. They broke a lot of existing software for a feature that I'll bet few people use and left developers with four fewer function keys and a fear that future system releases may co-opt the ones that are left.

It's almost as stupid as the "Windows" button on every PC. I'll bet few people use that, so for most of people it's just a dead key in a prime location.

jeff


On Apr 1, 2005, at 1:08 PM, James H H Lampert wrote:

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?

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JHHL
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