jxj2606@cs.rit.edu (Jehangir X Jungalwala) (03/21/91)
I have a Mac II SI with the 105 Extrended Keyboard, and I want to know is there a way that I can make the Fkeys execute programs. I don't mind using the Command-Shit # way, but it would make life a lot easier if I could just press one button. I do have some utilities like Fkey MGR and things like that, but those didn't seem to help! Is there a way that I can just execute programs that way. Or even link them to a macro that will execute the program... or something... JAY -- REPLY TO: jxj2606@cs.rit.edu OR jfj2606@ultb.isc.rit.edu
laird@think.com (Laird Popkin) (03/21/91)
In article <2206@cs.rit.edu> jxj2606@cs.rit.edu (Jehangir X Jungalwala) writes: > > I have a Mac II SI with the 105 Extrended Keyboard, and I want to know >is there a way that I can make the Fkeys execute programs. I don't mind >using the Command-Shit # way, but it would make life a lot easier if I >could just press one button. I do have some utilities like Fkey MGR and things >like that, but those didn't seem to help! Is there a way that I can just >execute programs that way. Or even link them to a macro that will execute >the program... or something... > You mean "command-shift" right? :^) The function keys on the extended Mac keyboard don't have anything to do with the command-shift-# FKEYs, believe it or not. The only way that the function keys will do anything is if (1) applications are written to use them, or (2) you use some macro program. As an example of programs which use the function keys, look at SoftPC, the PC emulator for the Mac. It uses the function keys so that PC programs that require the use of function keys can work. And I think that a few high-end programs may use the function keys directly, though not any that I could name off-hand. More reasonably, you could use QuickKeys, MacroMaker, or any other macro program, to program the function keys to do various things. They could trigger FKEYs, for example, but also any other macro. You could program keys to cut/copy/paste to match the keyboard labels. You could program a key to trigger a macro to check comp.sys.mac for new messages, for example. > >JAY >-- >REPLY TO: jxj2606@cs.rit.edu OR jfj2606@ultb.isc.rit.edu Laird aka laird@think.com
jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (George Jefferson ) (03/21/91)
:that require the use of function keys can work. And I think that a few :high-end programs may use the function keys directly, though not any that I :could name off-hand. one of MSWord's redeeming features... -- -george george@mech.seas.upenn.edu