Just wanted to thank you for this tip. I just used it to delete some
files. I had some trouble with it, but I think it's because I
enabled cursor tracking before I deleted all the files. :)
Thanks again. Now to figure out AppleScripts. I see the script and
think I know hbow to compile it. That's no problem. What I am
wondering is if I( can have it be called after I login
automatically. Is this possible? And where can I get this program
to get shortcut keys for the Mac?
Jane
On Dec 29, 2005, at 6:49 AM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
Hi
Yep, there is, but it gets a little odd. I don't know of a way
inside of OS X itself to do this with the keyboard, but VO provides
a way to do it--if there's an easier way, someone please post it
here as I'm sure we'd all be interested.
What you have to do is go into the folder where the files and/or
folders you want to copy are located. Highlight the first item you
want to select, then disable VO's cursor tracking with VO-keys+shift
+f3. Use the VO keys to navigate to each file you want to select,
and press VO-keys+command+spacebar on it. Once you've got them
selected, hit command+c to copy, and finally turn cursor tracking
on with VO-keys+shift+f3 again. Then you can paste them wherever
you like.
The reason you need to turn cursor tracking off is that, if left
enabled during this process, the highlight will move while you are
moving the VO keys, as if you moved it with the normal keyboard
navigation keys due to VO moving the keyboard focus with the VO
focus. This erases your selection, just as it would in a windows
environment. Disabling cursor tracking solves this problem.
hth
On Dec 29, 2005, at 4:41 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
Folks, got a load of docs to move about based on subject. Is there
a way to highlight individual documents which I'd then copy all at
once to another directory? In other word I might be wanting to
highlight 3 out of 4 docs for moving and in windows that is done
via the ctrl-spacebar, is there an equivalent for the Mac?
