Re: Option key or Alternate key
Re: Option key or Alternate key
- Subject: Re: Option key or Alternate key
- From: David Remahl <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 17:53:04 +0100
International keyboards often have Alt. German and swedish for
example...Here Alt has been the word used for as long as I used a Mac.
/ david
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I suspect the name NSAlternateKeyMask is a holdover from NextStep, which ran
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on Wintel-style keyboards. On the Mac it is traditionally called the Option
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key, and that's how it's labeled on my TiBook keyboard.
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I'm surprised your keycap is labeled "alt". Is it that way on all full-sized
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Apple keyboards? IMO it should be called (and labeled) "Option" everywhere,
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but go look for consistency in this crazy world. ;)
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--Andy
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At 8:07 AM -0800 2/27/02, Esteban wrote:
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> i don't know if this will help, but when i mask for the alt/option key being
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> pressed I use the constant called NSAlternateKeyMask, so a safe bet is to say
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> that it is called the Alternate Key in general.
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> -Esteban
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> On Wednesday, February 27, 2002, at 07:44 AM, Norbert Heger wrote:
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>> What's the correct name of the Alternate/Option key? The keycap is labeled
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>> "alt", but AFAIK Mac users usually call it the "Option key".
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>> I searched the "Mac OS X Terminology Guidelines", but only the Apple key /
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>> Command key is mentioned:
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>> Apple key: Don't use; the key with the cloverleaf and the Apple logo is
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>> "the Command key."
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>> Best Regards, Norbert
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