David W. Fenton wrote:
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.
One of the purposes of MS's standards is to ensure that all software is
fully-compatible with non-standard input & output systems, including
those for use by disabled people. And I vaguely remember hearing that
one requirement is that all functionality is available through keyboard
commands alone, so that any peripheral that can create keyboard commands
can be used. (For example, this is why the menu which appears when you
click the icon in the top-left of a window, with its commands such as
'move', has been retained all the way from at least Win 3.0).
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