Re: Mac fkeys
Re: Mac fkeys
- Subject: Re: Mac fkeys
- From: Alastair Houghton <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:31:47 +0100
On Oct 26, 2006, at 1:15 PM, Theodore H. Smith wrote:
Why are the fkeys on Macs so overused? F1 through f10 on my Mac are
all used for various stuff, sound, lighting, windows, etc.
Well not sound; the Mac keyboards have dedicated keys for that
(though if you're on a laptop, they are aliased onto the function
keys, via the "Fn" modifier key). But you're right, Apple have been
appropriating too many keyboard shortcuts for system-wide functions
recently for many peoples' taste. However, short of adding extra
keys to the keyboard (which I'm all for... there's room for a column
or two to the left or right of what's there now), there isn't much
else they can do.
On the PC, with MSVC, I can just use fkeys to build and step
through my code. it makes debugging and coding a bit easier.
On the Mac, firstly it's not possible cos the fkeys are already
used, and secondly... we can't really change the keycodes for menus.
You *can* change both keycodes in menus and many of the system-wide
key mappings. Have a browse about in e.g. the Dashboard & Exposé
pane in System Preferences, and in the Xcode Preferences panel under
"Key Bindings".
It's also possible, FYI, to change the default key bindings used by
NSTextView/NSTextField. There's an overview of the key bindings
mechanism here:
http://www.deepsky.com/~misaka/MacOSX/KeyBindings.html
Kind regards,
Alastair.
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http://alastairs-place.net
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