Johannes, Why were you using iKey 2? It has almost no added
functionality over iKey 1. If you don't need a macro program that can
test for the states of menu items, as in checked or unchecked, or for
variables iKey 1 will work for you, and costs a fraction of Quickeys.
steve
On Mar 8, 2005, at 7:25 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
I think I am going to give up on Quickeys. There are so many
problems...
1) When I try to record a complex macro in Finale, Quickeys regularly
crashes.
2) I am trying to get a Macro to select a popup menu item in the Frame
Attributes Dialog. I am trying to change a textblock from Single Page
to Page Range. Either this doesn't work at all, or, if it does work,
for some reason the second page range text field doesn't become
active. I am sure this is partly Finale's fault, but it has already
taken me almost a day now, without success.
3) Although not as bad as iKey2, the user interface isn't exactly
wonderful either.
4) The editor is so slow.
5) Programming complex macros is actually more fiddle than with iKey 2.
Unless someone can tell me the solutions to all of this I am going to
go back to iKey. I have to decide whether I want to put up with the
iKey2 UI or reprogram my macros in iKey 1, but either seems to be
better than Quickeys. Programming the complex macro I am currently
trying in Quickeys took me about half an hour in iKey 2.
It's pretty sad, since Quickeys can obviously do much more (ie it has
variables which I would like to use).
Nothing I have seen on OS X even comes close to what OneClick could do
in OS 9.
Johannes
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