[PD] Mac OS X, ALT-Shortcuts, dollarsign on Finnish keyboards?

[Miller Puckette]

Hi all,

Should Pd be using Alt-shortcuts at all, if that prevents people in
Finland (and doubtless other places as well) from getting to characters
that require the alt key to type?  Maybe I should move everything over to
"control" (Windoze/Linux) and "command" (Apple).

Opinions?

cheers
Miller

On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 04:05:13PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> I just remembered, the latest version of Tcl/Tk,  8.4.7, addresses the  
> wierdness of the Alt key, so it should be much easier to use the Alt  
> key on Darwin/MacOS X with Tcl/Tk 8.4.7
> 
> .hc
> 
> On Nov 1, 2004, at 3:09 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> >
> >It has to do with the way that the keys are mapped in Pd.  The Tcl/Tk  
> >framework fully supports all of the keys.
> >
> >Reworking the menus and key commands is relatively high on my todo  
> >list, but it'll probably be a couple months before I have time to get  
> >to it.  Hopefully someone else will get to it before me...
> >
> >.hc
> >
> >On Nov 1, 2004, at 2:39 PM, rainer kohlberger wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>New to PD and a Mac OS X user;
> >>browsed the pd-list-mailarchive and found out that other users had  
> >>have the same problem (in June):
> >>'ALT'-shortcuts (for putting bangs, toggles, etc.) do not work.
> >>
> >>Is that problem solved in the meantime?
> >>Has it something to do with the Tcl/Tk-Framwork?
> >>Other ideas?
> >>
> >>
> >>rainer.
> >>
> >>
> >>
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