On Wednesday, Oct 30, 2002, at 07:28 US/Pacific, Fiskum, Steve wrote:
I am having a some difficulties with QuicKeys and MacFin2003. It appears that 4 dialog boxes and their subsets no longer allow QuicKeys to recognize the "Control Name" or what I would call a buttons or ckeck boxes. The dialog boxes are: Extract Parts, Page Format for Score, Page Format for Score Parts, and Tie Options.
For example, all of the check boxes in the Extract Parts dialog box are not recognized. Since I have no way to identify whether the button is ON or OFF let alone accept that there is something there, it makes it difficult to create automated processes. The unfortunate work around is either to manually check boxes or allow QuicKeys to "click" a coordinate in the dialog box, then stop and make sure it did not unckeck something that needed to be checked.What is changing in Finale is that a gradual adaption from the old style "dialog items" to the newer Appearance Manager controls has been taking place. Although it might look like the checkboxes in the Extract Parts dialog have not changed from 2002, in fact they have. Previously, Finale attained its Appearance Manager look by using an automatic control mapping feature of the MacOS but in 2K3, the checkboxes are now changed to the modern[1] controls. I don't have QK so I can't be of much help other than to say that programatically, the Extract Parts 2K3 dialog is using Appearance Manager controls stuffed into dialog items and that control embedding is turned off. I presume the other 3 are in the same pickle.
The above barely scratches the surface for a complete explanation. Things are quite complicated with respect to behaviors of controls when a dialog only uses a subset of the options--especially when it comes to Appearance Manager controls NOT embedded. Sorry I can't be of much help with QK, but if you see any options in there that would account for the above mentioned conditions, you might have some chance of success.
HTH,
Philip Aker
http://www.aker.ca
[1] "Modern" as in MacOS 8 (ca. 1997).
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