Doesn't sound like this is going in the right
direction. ;-}
Macintosh uses the Command key for shortcuts. Mac
Command == Windows Ctrl. Documentation of shortcuts or "keyboard
equivalents":
On an Apple keyboard, Option is also labeled Alt, which is confusing. The
option key without the command key, as the documentation notes, is used
to get "foreign" characters out of an Apple keyboard. It's another kind of
shift. It is also used historically to change the definitions of menu items, but
you don't see that much in new software.
Macintosh/Aqua doesn't have a 1-1 equivalent of the Windows Alt
key for menu accessibility. That's why you don't see any underlining in the menu
items. Macintosh accessibility obeys the arrow keys and a user-definable
set of keys, modified by Ctrl. This is a system mode and I doubt if the
application even sees these keystrokes. Documentation is here:
Hope this helps.
Bob
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Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 8:33
AM
Subject: [platform-swt-dev] Re: [Bug
19568] {} on a german keyboard [swt-carbon]
Continuing the discussion on
the mailing list for the wider audience...
I'm still confused here.
The Mac "Command" key is what we should be marking as equivalent to the "ALT".
Is this key also what is used to enter the special key codes? I thought it was
the "option" key in this case.
McQ.
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| Ulrich Köster <uli@xxxxxxx>
07/09/2002 05:34 AM
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To:
"Andre Weinand" <Andre_Weinand@xxxxxxx>
cc:
"Knut Radloff" <knut_radloff@xxxxxxx>,
Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Bug 19568]
{} on a german keyboard [swt-carbon] |
Hi Andre,
You wrote in a previous
mail:
Proposed fix:
I will remove the ALT modifier from a key event,
whenever it was used to
get a
special character. However, since there
are many special characters not
many
Alt-modifiers will come
through.
If this results in problems I will try to use the 'Fn' modifier as
'Alt'.
Just to mention: There is no Fn key on my cube keyboard
:-).
To be more mac-like I would suggest to use apple+s for save(which
works
currently and thats what a normal mac user would expect) i.e. map
the
apple key to swt-alt-modifier-in-event and map alt+s (which is the
character ') to no swt-modifier. Mac users use the apple key for
shortcuts windows users use the alt key. I don`t know if this hurts
something else.
Just my two cents.
Best
regards
Ulrich
Am Dienstag den, 9. Juli 2002, um 10:52, schrieb
Andre Weinand:
>
> Hi Ulrich,
> as far as I know is
there no Windows specific StyledText.java, so
> everything that Knut has
fixed is already in the MacOS X version (I
> hope).
>
> IMO
the ALT + key problem is not a "bug" but just a consequence of
the
> fact that the Mac's option key is labelled 'Alt'.
> If I
want to enter a '{' on a German keyboard I have to use Option-'('
>
and
> I don't want to have Eclipse interpret this as Alt-'(', i.e. a
shortcut
> for
> some function.
> So in order to get this
to work we cannot change StyledText or any
> high-level mechanims but we
have to introduce a mechanism that allows
> for
> either
using
> the Option-key in the normal Mac-way (to enter special
characters) or to
> use it as the 'Alt' key.
>
>
--andre
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>
>
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Hi Andre,
>
> may you should talk to knut_radloff@xxxxxxx. He has
fixed a alt + key
> bug on windows in StyledText.java.
>
>
Just trying to help you.
>
> Best regards
>
>
Ulrich
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