On 29 Sep 2002 at 1:19, Philip Aker wrote: > On Friday, Sep 27, 2002, at 12:20 US/Pacific, Phil Daley wrote: > > > I think David already pointed out that there many are more modifier > > keys on Windows than the Mac. > > Maybe so, maybe not. It seems that not all models are endowed equally > (talking about keyboards that is :). . . .
A keyboard would have to be pre-1995 to not have the extra Windows keys, or be from Compaq, a company that failed to supply the extra keys until about 1996 or 1997. > . . . There's also the thing about Macs > being able to handle two non-modifier keys along with the modifier > combinations. So the number of combinatorial possibilities jumps > considerably more than by incrementing the factorial by one. > > Anyway, I'd like to constrain the discussion of the modifiers to those > that move the insertion point through a text window or alter the > selection. And once again point out the straight forward logic and > efficiency of using modifiers and arrow keys for such purposes. If Windows programmers wanted to program modifier keys to move the cursor with the arrow keys, they have more options than Mac programmers do, because there are more modifier keys on a standard Windows keyboard. But, of course, there's no *need* for the excess modifier keys in Windows, because there are dedicated keys that handle most of the cursor movement options, and the simple application of Ctrl for those that are not there (Ctrl-End, Ctrl-Home, Ctrl-PageUp, Ctrl-PageDown, Ctrl-Right/Left, Ctrl-Up/Down). The Mac wouldn't need any special pleading for all the modifier keys if they used the keys on the keyboard for the purposes they were created for in the first place. -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates | http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
