Thank you. It's true that Apple guidelines discourage liberal use of Option (⌥) in menu hotkeys. The attitude is that Command (⌘) and Shift (⇧) ought to cover most requirements.
Trouble is, Apple is grabbing more and more of the most obvious hotkey combinations for general OS X use – and the JQt IDE reserves some more. (How, for instance can I trap something like ⌘Z (Undo) for use in my own jwd-defined form?) Option (⌥) is only something I'd want to use as a last resort to avoid using an unmemorable letter, or something for the power user only – like suppressing a "Do you really want to delete this?" messagebox. On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 6:07 PM, chris burke <[email protected]> wrote: > The Alt sysmodifier will be in the next J804 beta, together with the first > use of Alt in the IDE menus, i.e. OSX option+command+/ for Toggle Note. > > On 18 June 2015 at 09:41, Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > >> in J803 jwd, if the Option key (⌥) is held down, (sysmodifiers) >> remains obstinately at (,'0'). >> >> But it gets the correct values (,'1') and (,'2') for Shift key (⇧) and >> Command key (⌘) respectively. >> >> JVERSION >> Engine: j803/2014-10-19-11:11:11 >> Library: 8.03.13 >> Qt IDE: 1.3.1/5.3.2 >> Platform: Darwin 64 >> Installer: J803 install >> InstallPath: /applications/j64-803 >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
