IIRC shortcut keys reserved by qt ide are only effective inside qt ide. ctrl-j might be an exception, I am not sure, you need to check. option (alt) key should better be reserved for OS or window manager, and used only as the last resort as what you had said. On Sep 11, 2015 2:33 AM, "Ian Clark" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
