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Article #7874

Quickeys Questions

#7874
From: Leo Breebaart
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1991 15:07
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I have been toying with Quickeys II for a while now, and overall I 
think that no Mac should be without it. It is everything that
MacroMaker was supposed to be but isn't, and the interface is
surprisingly simple and pleasant, once you learn what types of events 
the little icons signify.

I do have two questions for which I couldn't find the answer in the
manual, but perhaps somebody on the net knows something I overlooked.

The very first thing I tried to do with Quickeys was to re-define my
command-E key: I want it to mean *dismount* a diskette, not just eject
it. Has anybody succeeded in doing this?

The second thing was a problem that became apparent after toying 
with it some more. It is the problem of: "How do I remember what
my Quickeys stand for?".
What it boils down to is that I would desperately like a prefix-key
possibility for my Universal quickey set.

For instance, I have created quickeys for five of my most often used
cdev's. What I really want to do is use two-key sequences for recalling
these, i.e. "ctrl-p ctrl-a" for AfterDark, "ctrl-p ctrl-g" for GateKeeper,
etc.
I could then use e.g. 'ctrl-d' as prefix for recalling certain desk
accessories, 'ctrl-a' as prefix for starting applications, in short:
create a hierarchy of reasonably mnemonic names that I can still 
remember without having to have listings lying around.

At the moment I don't think Quickeys allows the possibility of such a 
prefix key, and I suppose the best solution will be to use combinations
of shift,ctrl,cmnd and option instead.

Still I would be interested in hearing what other people think of this
idea, and how they solve the problem of accumulating Quickeys.

--
Leo Breebaart  (leo @ duttnph.tudelft.nl)
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