Ah, interesting. I guess I got around the input shortcuts the hard
way, I changed them to command-f8 and command-f9 respectively and left
spotlight on command-space. For me these keystrokes are more readily
at hand, but hey that's why we can change them :).
I agreee that focus is being mishandled on some tables such as this
one. It did take me a bit the first time I wanted to change a shortcut
to figure out how, because double-clicking didn't work like it did in
Tiger in this case. My guess is that the mouse isn't being routed to
the edit area, but probably to the cell containing the edit field. So
when you hit vo-cmd-f5 you're getting the correct column read, but
you're not quite routed to where you need to be. Just a guess.
On Nov 12, 2008, at 23:54, Esther wrote:
Hi Jacob,
Thanks for your suggestion. I found another interesting way of re-
assigning the Spotlight shortcut. The original reason for wanting
to reassign keyboard shortcuts involving Spotlight is in order to
use different input keyboards to simplify typing accented characters
in other languages. When you select another input keyboard -- say,
for French or Spanish -- by checking these options in the table on
the Input Keyboard tab of the International menu under System
Preferences, you'll find there are shortcut key sequence definitions
for switching between previous and next input keyboard appearing
below the table. The thing is, the command for "Select the previous
input source" has the same shortcut (Command-Space) as Spotlight
does. (This definition predates Spotlight). If you press keyboard
shortcuts button just after the input menu shortcut definitions,
you're taken to the Keyboard shortcuts tab. The input menu
switching options now appear as an (unchecked) collapsed folder just
above the Spotlight shortcuts. Checking the box gives conflicting
definitions with the Spotlight shortcuts. However, if you stop
interacting with the table and press the "Restore Defaults" button
just after the table, both sets of shortcut definitions for input
menu switching and spotlight remain active, but the Spotlight
shortcuts are switched to Control-Space. The shortcuts are now:
Input Menu:
Select the previous input source -- Command-Space
Select the next input source in the input menu -- Option-Command-Space
Spotlight:
Show Spotlight search field -- Control-Space
Show Spotlight windos -- Control-Option Space
(The only actions here were to check the box for the Input Menu and
then to press the button for "Restore Defaults")
Your solution of tabbing to change the keyboard shortcut assignment
works, but there are still some definite glitches in the way that
focus is handled in Leopard. The instruction listed before the
keyboard shortcuts table is: "To change a shortcut, double-click the
shortcut and hold down the new keys". That actually works in Tiger
on my PowerBook (I could double-click by pressing the Control-Option-
Shift keys and tapping the space bar twice, and then enter the new
shortcut), and I originally couldn't figure out the source of
Simon's difficulties, since I only recently switched to Leopard and
a MacBook.
