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MarcusH

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Questions about Mac Keyboard and Keys new

#938350 - 03/09/11 07:38 AM

Hi

I've just been just been doing a little 'housekeeping' in Logic: learning new Key Commands, changing my templates, improving my Screensets etc. - and some questions cropped up.

• In Mac dialogue/warning boxes about things like saving, can you choose on a keyboard the grey 'highlighted' options? Or do you have to use the mouse. I think in Windows you can tab between buttons and then press return.

• What's the easiest way of keying the ♭ character? At the moment I use Character Viewer - but it's cumbersome - and I do wish it was as simple as keying Option something. Can this be customised?

• What's the ⎋ character? I saw it in Key Commands in Logic and I don't even know what key it represents.

Help appreciated. Small issues, but some of these have been bugging me for years.

Cheers

Marcus

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Jonnypopisical

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Re: Questions about Mac Keyboard and Keys new

[Re: MarcusH]
#938354 - 03/09/11 08:41 AM

Any Highlighted button as you displayed works by hitting return

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MarcusH

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Re: Questions about Mac Keyboard and Keys new

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#938362 - 03/09/11 09:15 AM

So how can I move the highlighting from one button to another? I seem to remember on Windows you use Tab. Cancel is easy enough because you can use Esc - but on more complicated dialogues I can't find a way round.

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MrSimon

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Re: Questions about Mac Keyboard and Keys new

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#938382 - 03/09/11 10:14 AM

Quote MarcusH:

• In Mac dialogue/warning boxes about things like saving, can you choose on a keyboard the grey 'highlighted' options? Or do you have to use the mouse. I think in Windows you can tab between buttons and then press return.

You want control-tab for this. Enter selects.

Quote MarcusH:

• What's the easiest way of keying the ♭ character? At the moment I use Character Viewer - but it's cumbersome - and I do wish it was as simple as keying Option something. Can this be customised?

The easiest way I know of is to use OS X's automatic correction feature. If you go to System Preferences, Language and Text, Text you get a list (on the right) of character's that OS X will automatically replace. The top one, for instance, should be (c) which OS X will replace with the © symbol upon detection.

You can add your own auto corrections to this list. I have it set so that it will automatically replace with (b) with ♭, and (s) with #. You have to find somewhere to copy and paste the relevant symbols from as I didn't seem to be able to find them in the available options.

I don't know if that is the easiest way but it works for me.

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• What's the ⎋ character? I saw it in Key Commands in Logic and I don't even know what key it represents.

A quick search of google tells me this is the escape key. Which is nice to know.

Hope that all helps.

Si

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clisma

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Re: Questions about Mac Keyboard and Keys new

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#938383 - 03/09/11 10:16 AM

In your system preferences, go to "keyboard" then select the "keyboard shortcuts" tab; at the bottom of the window there are two radio buttons: activate the one that says "All controls". This should now allow you to use the 'Tab' key to move from item to item in any dialog box. Windows style.

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Re: Questions about Mac Keyboard and Keys new

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#938387 - 03/09/11 10:24 AM

I don't know if anything's changed with Lion, but on my Snow Leopard system Tab moves forwards through options, Shift-Tab moves back, and Space selects the one you highlight - whereas Enter selects the original (automatically highlighted) option.

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MarcusH

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Re: Questions about Mac Keyboard and Keys [Re: MarcusH]
#938413 - 03/09/11 12:23 PM

Thanks everybody - two trips to system preferences sorted those out.

Interesting about the ⎋ character; in fact I Googled it but got no answer. Maybe my next housekeeping job is to learn how to use Google properly.

Cheers

Marcus

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