akk2@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Atul Kacker) (03/13/89)
A naive question...
Is there any way to assign a keyboard shortcut to do the equivalent of
clicking in the go-away or Close box?
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------ls1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Leonard John Schultz) (03/13/89)
Quickkeys by CE Software will do what you want. You can set up a keyboard command to perform various mouse actions and many other sequences and functions I have experienced problems with Moire Cdev screensaver (It would disable all Quickkeys). Makro Maker is packaged with all new Macs and will do the same things, but will take up more memory, although I don't know about closing windows. Then again, you can always type command-W.
akk2@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Atul Kacker) (03/14/89)
In article <1102@ur-cc.UUCP> akk2@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Atul Kacker) writes: >Is there any way to assign a keyboard shortcut to do the equivalent of >clicking in the go-away or Close box? > In a matter of hours since I posted the above I got about 20 replies telling me to use Quickkeys from CE software. I will look into getting that. Some also suggested just using the Command-W option. I guess that works from most places, but it doesn't for the Chooser window, which is one of the things I was interested in. I wonder why? Anyway, thanks for all the replies. -- Atul Kacker | Internet: akk2@uhura.cc.rochester.edu | UUCP: {ames,cmcl2,decvax,rutgers}!rochester!ur-cc!akk2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
julian@riacs.edu (Julian E Gomez) (03/15/89)
In article <1106@ur-cc.UUCP> akk2@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Atul Kacker) writes: " In article <1102@ur-cc.UUCP> akk2@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Atul Kacker) writes: " >Is there any way to assign a keyboard shortcut to do the equivalent of " >clicking in the go-away or Close box? " In a matter of hours since I posted the above I got about 20 replies telling " me to use Quickkeys from CE software. I will look into getting that. I like Tempo II better than Quickeys because it has conditional operators. -- "Have you ever wondered if taxation without representation was cheaper?" Julian "a tribble took it" Gomez julian@riacs.edu
dce@stan.UUCP (David Elliott) (03/16/89)
In article <cY6jTay00WB7I8ykl-@andrew.cmu.edu> ls1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Leonard John Schultz) writes: >Quickkeys by CE Software will do what you want. You can set up a keyboard >command to perform various mouse actions and many other sequences and functions > >I have experienced problems with Moire Cdev screensaver (It would disable all >Quickkeys). Hmm. I use Moire Cdev, and have had no problems. Icon-It! does clash with QuicKeys, but otherwise I've had no problems. >Makro Maker is packaged with all new Macs and will do the same things, but will >take up more memory, although I don't know about closing windows. Oddly enough, MacroMaker will handle this job. Last night, someone asked me to explain what the deficiencies of MacroMaker were, and I tried the "close window" example. To my surprise, a macro made from clicking on the close box always seems to close the active window. I believe that the biggest deficiency in MacroMaker is the documentation. If the person that wrote the QuicKeys manual had written the MacroMaker manual, people might find out that it's a lot more useful than it looks. Now, if MicroSoft BASIC would just refrain from bombing when MacroMaker and QuicKeys are installed... -- David Elliott ...!pyramid!boulder!stan!dce "Splish splash, I was rakin' in the cash" -- Eno
jackiw@cs.swarthmore.edu (Nick Jackiw) (03/16/89)
In article <589@salgado.stan.UUCP> dce@salgado.UUCP (David Elliott) writes: > I believe that the biggest deficiency in MacroMaker is the documentation. > If the person that wrote the QuicKeys manual had written the MacroMaker > manual, people might find out that it's a lot more useful than it looks. > -- > David Elliott ...!pyramid!boulder!stan!dce > "Splish splash, I was rakin' in the cash" -- Eno It's true: you can't beat free system software. But as an occasional consultant to users on our big campus Mac network, I must admit that MacroMaker seems to generate FAR MORE incompatibilities with esoteric software than does QuicKeys. (By esoteric I don't just mean developmental- semibuggyware, but also products initially designed on other mac configurations, and applications/inits/cdevs which, though playing by the rules, play "fast and loose" with them instead of conservatively.) If Macromaker improves your life, go with it. But if you don't really use it much, and your mac is prone to occasional inexplicable crashes, trash it. [Back to the "close-window" example. The original poster was offered the advice of using cmd-W, and commented that this doesn't seem to work in all applications. To him or her (I can't remember the gender): true, this is a function of the Menu manager; so things like the Chooser, which has no menu, won't respond to it. Any application (i. e. thing with a menu) which doesn't respond to it but which nonetheless has a CLOSE item in its FILE menu can be modified with ResEdit to include a cmd-key equivalent for that menu item.] -- +-------------------+-jackiw@cs.swarthmore.edu / !rutgers!bpa!swatsun!jackiw-+ | nicholas jackiw | jackiw%campus.swarthmore.edu@swarthmr.bitnet | +-------------------+-VGP/MathDept/Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 19081--+ "Ah...I've got this CHRONIC pain." _True Believer_
kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr) (03/17/89)
In article <589@salgado.stan.UUCP> dce@salgado.UUCP (David Elliott) writes:
<Oddly enough, MacroMaker will handle this job. Last night, someone asked
<me to explain what the deficiencies of MacroMaker were, and I tried the
<"close window" example. To my surprise, a macro made from clicking on the
<close box always seems to close the active window.
Why would you program a macro to click in the close box when you already
have a command devoted to that function (Cmnd-W)?
Actually I'm smiling. Although I use it all the time in Word, I never
realized that it works at the finder level too. I just happened to glance
at the quick guide that comes with Mac documentation and said Hmmm, I
think I'll try that.
Shirley Kehr