Alan Horkan wrote: > Keep in mind that it will usually be "command key" + letter > on windows the command key is Ctrl, on Mac it is the "Apple Key", on some > unix systems and BeOS it is Alt. So i dont think you can use combinations > like Ctrl + Alt without horrible knackering portability. > Sometimes it could be command key + F1 (or other F? key). Or sometimes > command key + shift > + letter, but this should be very closely related to the same combination > with out shift. for example Ctrl + F7 would be spellchecking and > (if you have the necessary plugin installed) Ctrl + Shift + F7 is for the > Thesaurus (which im afraid is not yet available for windows users).
Two things: I'd like to start a list of the possible command keys on the different OS's, so we know what is available. On Windows, I know that you can use almost any combination of the <ctrl>, <alt>, and <shift> keys along with a "real" "target" key (i.e., you can do <ctrl><alt><shift>a). I'm guessing that some other keys can also be used as command keys, including maybe the Windows key. The key combination prefixes that I've used in Word97 for Windows include: <ctrl> <alt> <ctrl><alt> <ctrl><shift> <alt><shift> <ctrl><alt><shift> Unfortunately, I've used all of these. Partly because, although I'd like to recommend we use the Word97 key bindings (including for styles), Microsoft has used a few of all the combinations except <ctrl><alt><shift>, so, the only completely unused "namespace" where I could define my own keybindings (shortcut keys) without interfering with some of the built-in keybindings is <ctrl><alt><shift>. Can anybody else specify the key command prefixes available in Linux, Mac, and whatever else we want to consider (Beos, ...)? Thanks, Randy Kramer ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
