On 7 Jan 2006 at 22:30, Aaron Sherber wrote: > At 10:19 PM 1/7/2006, David W. Fenton wrote: > >On 7 Jan 2006 at 19:40, Aaron Sherber wrote: > >> Hmm, not sure what you mean here. The WinFin toolbar *is* > >> customizable -- we just don't have an equivalent to the Cmd-Click > >> master access you have on Mac. And the keystroke shortcut (I > assume >> you mean the Alt-F-S combos, or whatever) are of course > built into the >> OS, not a Finale thing. I'm a little surprised that > Mac doesn't have >> something similar. > >They are not built into > Windows. They are built into Microsoft >development tools. And they > don't happen automatically -- you have to >assign the keystrokes > > Sorry, wasn't thinking straight. Of course you're right -- they are > provided by the application, not the OS. I'm just so used to seeing > them in every single Windows app.
There are two reasons for that: 1. it's part of Microsoft's recommended UI standard. 2. most developers of Windows software use Microsoft development tools to write their software, and the MS development tools are designed to promote conformity with MS's UI standards. > To be fair, though, I wouldn't say that they're built into MS dev > tools -- at least not exclusively. I use Borland Delphi, which lets > you do the same thing. . . . All that means is that Delphi was designed to conform to MS's UI guidelines. > . . . You can also set the AutoHotKeys property of a > menu, which automatically assigns non-conflicting hotkeys to menu > items, if possible. I think that's what I had in mind when I > mistakenly said that the whole thing was automagic on Windows. Well, that would depend on the development tools used, which was my main point. The standard of having a keyboard shortcut for every menu choice is one supported by Microsoft uniformly across all its product lines. I don't know if it comes from the adaptation of whatever that manu standard was that MS adopted (perhaps from IBM), or if this was a Microsoft initiative. Whichever, I agree that it's a very good thing. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
