Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!lll-winken!uunet!cbmvax!vu-vlsi!swatsun!jackiw From: jackiw@cs.swarthmore.edu (Nick Jackiw) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Close box shortcut ? Message-ID: <2554@ilium.cs.swarthmore.edu> Date: 16 Mar 89 15:59:44 GMT References: <589@salgado.stan.UUCP> Reply-To: jackiw@ilium.UUCP (Nick Jackiw) Organization: Visual Geometry Project, Swarthmore College, PA Lines: 36 In article <589@salgado.stan.UUCP> dce@salgado.UUCP (David Elliott) writes: > I believe that the biggest deficiency in MacroMaker is the documentation. > If the person that wrote the QuicKeys manual had written the MacroMaker > manual, people might find out that it's a lot more useful than it looks. > -- > David Elliott ...!pyramid!boulder!stan!dce > "Splish splash, I was rakin' in the cash" -- Eno It's true: you can't beat free system software. But as an occasional consultant to users on our big campus Mac network, I must admit that MacroMaker seems to generate FAR MORE incompatibilities with esoteric software than does QuicKeys. (By esoteric I don't just mean developmental- semibuggyware, but also products initially designed on other mac configurations, and applications/inits/cdevs which, though playing by the rules, play "fast and loose" with them instead of conservatively.) If Macromaker improves your life, go with it. But if you don't really use it much, and your mac is prone to occasional inexplicable crashes, trash it. [Back to the "close-window" example. The original poster was offered the advice of using cmd-W, and commented that this doesn't seem to work in all applications. To him or her (I can't remember the gender): true, this is a function of the Menu manager; so things like the Chooser, which has no menu, won't respond to it. Any application (i. e. thing with a menu) which doesn't respond to it but which nonetheless has a CLOSE item in its FILE menu can be modified with ResEdit to include a cmd-key equivalent for that menu item.] -- +-------------------+-jackiw@cs.swarthmore.edu / !rutgers!bpa!swatsun!jackiw-+ | nicholas jackiw | jackiw%campus.swarthmore.edu@swarthmr.bitnet | +-------------------+-VGP/MathDept/Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 19081--+ "Ah...I've got this CHRONIC pain." _True Believer_