One thing to note about quickeys, we're on MAC OSX 10.3 and already on Quickeys X3, each version is a significant overhaul, these aren't minor increments, the application is being very actively developed.
I can't comment on iKeys but I've been using Quickeys since OS9 and on OSX since X1. I agree with comments made earlier about Quickeys X1, it was a shock to all preious users to have to go back a few generations. Version X2 was much better, but was still getting problems getting things to work. X3 seems much more aware of the various windows and pallettes in OSX, I think part of the difficulty has been that the Window Management in OSX is far, far more advanced in OSX than in OS9. OSX has so many drawers, tear off pallettes and other slidey gizmos that Quickeys has to check and look for. I have managed to get everything to work reliably in X3 but only after spending some time and effort on each step, making sure that there won't be any tiny changes such as changes in window names etc when I run it on different documents. Just to give you an idea of what I mean, one application I use is called OmniOutliner. When I export from that application, a slide down sheet drops down with the save dialog on. Looks cool! HOWEVER ... that means the window that the actions operate on is named the same as the document, so unless you edit that step and set it up with a more wildcard entry under the window name, the macro will only work ON THAT DOCUMENT! Dohhh! This is confusing at first, and ultimately quite boring to edit every step, but ultimately your macros work (in my experience). It's frustrating, but hardly Quickeys fault, I'm sure that other applications, however well thought out, still have to account for these possibilies too. Simon Troup Digital Music Art ------------------------- Finale IRC channel server: irc.chatspike.net port: 6667 channel: #Finale ------------------------- _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
