Hi Doug, Chiming in here if I may. I have used QuicKeys since v1.2 on my first Mac in 1989, and always found it indispensable especially in Finale. Currently I am still on Snow Leopard and one of the apps that was preventing my from moving to Lion was QK. They are having issues with their head programmer (it's posted on their website) and I feel the application is languishing now because of that and it made me seek out an alternative. In the past I did try iKey but it was completely unreliable and I trashed it.
Someone on the Finale user board did say he was using the latest version of QK in Lion with no issues. But I felt QK was bogging down my system under SN and was concerned about using it under Lion. Could be a moot point tho. I am now using Keyboard Maestro and am finding it quite robust and more than usable here. The caveat was that I had to recreate all my Finale shortcuts which probably turned out to be a good thing since it made me rethink all of them and in some cases they became more efficient. It is missing some of QK niceties but all in all, it's eminently usable. J D Thomas ThomaStudios On Aug 22, 2012, at 8:10 AM, Doug Walter wrote: > Hi Jef, > > I notice you're using iKey and I'm curious whether you've ever used QuicKeys. > I used to use the latter and always found it a bit clunky, especially for > more complicated tasks, so I left it alone for a few years and eventually > came back to a newer version and had the same issues. > > Currently I'm not using any third party software to automate things in Finale > and would love to know if you've found iKey both relatively simple and > reliable. After writing this I'll see if there's a demo I can try, but > firsthand experience is most welcome. If it matters, I'd be using it in Lion > (10.7.4). > > Thanks, > Doug > > On Aug 22, 2012, at 2:32 AM, SN jef chippewa wrote: > >> >> they can be accessed from within the tool, but the tools themselves >> can also be assigned metatools (ctl-f through '). since they are per >> tool, you have 35+ metatools for each of the tools i listed (so >> something like 280+ in total). if they were tool-independent, you >> would only have 35+ TOTAL. >> >> i use iKey extensively for various tasks and task sequences which >> give you even more "metatools" and that are generally >> tool-independent; you can use a variety of key combinations in iKey, >> for example, i press ctl-opt-n to call up the change expression >> dalogue, cmd-ctl-t to run TGTools shift accidentals and dismiss the >> dialogue on a selected region. you can also build dozens of tasks in >> a single key command to across a variety of tools, essentially >> building your own plugins, i suppose. >> >>> Refresh my memory -- metatools are key combinations that work from >>> any tool in the program? Or do you have to be in the tool for which >>> the metatool was programmed? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
