Wow. Learn something every day. I'm kinda a funny windows user. I started out in DOS, Skipped windows 3.1 (our school didn't really get around to windows until windows 95) and then went to win95. I never got around to learning what all the F-keys were for.
Thanks, David. Allen > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David W. Fenton > Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 9:21 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [Finale] OT: Mac OSX on Windows Machine? > > On 12 Apr 2006 at 8:49, Fisher, Allen wrote: > > > In regards to window-D, what I'm talking about is on mac, > when you are > > in an open or save dialog box, pressing cmd-d changes the browsing > > location in that dialog box to the desktop. It's really > handy when you > > download things from "the internets" to your desktop. I can't count > > the number of times I hit that key combo mistakenly on > windows and I > > get the unexpected result... :-) > > Then try F4, HOME, ENTER. Three keystrokes, but at least you > don't have to mouse it. > > The mapping of F4 to the LOOK IN dropdown list in the File > Open dialog is actually something a violation of the UI > conventions for the use of F4, which is supposed to drop down > the currently selected dropdown list. If you move the focus > to the FILES OF TYPE dropdown list, F4 works as expected > there. But the different behaviors for F4 here as compared to > other contexts is something of a problem, in my opinion. > > -- > 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 > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
