Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!dutrun!galaxy!leo From: leo@duttnph.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Quickeys Questions Message-ID: Date: 19 Mar 91 15:07:39 GMT Sender: news@dutrun.UUCP Reply-To: leo@duttnph.tudelft.nl Lines: 37 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)