Hi Greg,
As far as I am aware, there are a couple of different ways to achieve
what you are asking and the one for you may depend on how brave you are
feeling this morning:
a) One solution I have seen involves using the terminal and a
Hex-editor to modify the localized.rsrc file in the Finder.app. See
the following link:
<http://www.macosxhints.com/
article.php?story=20020304093903824&query=finder+key+shortcut>
b) If you are proficient with Interface Builder (free with Developer
Tools) you can look into modifying the mainmenu.nib for the Finder. I
forget exactly where this .nib is located in the system directory, but
I'm sure a google search will help you track it down.
NB. IF YOU INTEND PURSUING EITHER OF THESE OPTIONS ALWAYS REMEMBER TO
WORK ON A BACKUP COPY OF THE SYSTEM FILE IN QUESTION.
c) Perhaps the most user friendly option is to take a look for
shareware/freeware apps at versiontracker like Keyboard Maestro, which
amongst other things allow you to assign or reassign various functions
to keyboard shortcuts at both a global and individual application (in
your case Finder) level.
HTH,
Matt.
On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 11:19 AM, Greg Hosking wrote:
Can someone point me to any information about OSX finder key commands,
especially the ability to change them!!
so many of the finder commands conflict with critical software, it's
very frustrating. Even F14 & F15 are permanently tied to screen
brightness... why?! why not just make them brightness keys?!
anyway, cheers for any help
cheers
Greg
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Matt Huitson
Dept of Psychology
University of Western Australia
Nedlands, WA 6009
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