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KeyCue - A cheat sheet for keyboard shortcuts
Authored by: Welles Goodrich on May 06, '04 09:27:06AM

I have KeyCue installed because I hope to increase my use of key commands rather than using the mouse. For me it is quite useful but, as Rob points out, it only 'sees' and reports on commands in the keyboard menu. I was hoping, for example, that it might access the Keyboard Shortcuts... (a shortcut manager) which lists all key commands in Photoshop CS. As it doesn't, I've written the developer with that suggestion which, if implemented would be a boon to computer graphics civilization!



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KeyCue - A cheat sheet for keyboard shortcuts
Authored by: osxpounder on May 06, '04 11:12:47AM

Well, whatever your suggestion may be, I hope it is along the lines of "find a way to make KeyCue reveal ALL keyboard shortcuts in an app, even the ones we don't see listed on our menus." I was just thinking, all through April as I learned my way around Final Cut Pro 4, that I could really use an app that, when I had a certain app selected and held a key down, would show me what the key was assigned. I was constantly hitting keys in FCP that turned out to be shortcuts to things I didn't know about, and I worried now & then that I'd just done something destructive.

KeyCues is of no help to me, in this case, since it doesn't reveal all keyboard shortcuts. The ones on the menus are easy enough for me to find [I took snapshots of a few menus as reminders]; it's the ones that aren't on the menus that I most need help with.

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keyboard/mouse shortcuts
Authored by: sjk on May 06, '04 10:50:58PM

Yep, like some of those possibly-obscure-but-cleverly-useful option-prefixed ones that Apple likes to sneak in with software updates without necessarily documenting them which end up being mentioned in hints on this site. :-)

How hard can it be to consistently make "Keyboard/Mouse Shortcuts" a standard item under the Help menu of every application?



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KeyCue - A cheat sheet for keyboard shortcuts
Authored by: Frederico on May 07, '04 03:58:44AM

I wrote to the developer asking about this too; he replied that the only way he knew to accomplish this was to maintain a static database of known (or reported) keyboard shortcuts (apart from those shown in the Menubar).

This would be completely useless, as a simple "maintenance update" from many a vendor has been known to kill a keystroke.

There just has to be a way to scan the app to find the keystroke library and keep it current and "dynamic".

Otherwise, yes, this app could be a -- no, THE -- killer productivity app; replacing the endless pile of printed pages from hints sites, keystroke cards from Adobe, Macromedia, et al, that litter media artists' desks the world over. Of course, any number of software instructors would lose a good chunk of their value, but, hey, that's progress.



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KeyCue - A cheat sheet for keyboard shortcuts
Authored by: Frederico on May 07, '04 04:13:56AM

I wrote to the developer asking about this too; he replied that the only way he knew to accomplish this was to maintain a static database of known (or reported) keyboard shortcuts (apart from those shown in the Menubar).

This would be completely useless, as a simple "maintenance update" from many a vendor has been known to kill a keystroke.

There just has to be a way to scan the app to find the keystroke library and keep it current and "dynamic".

Otherwise, yes, this app could be a -- no, THE -- killer productivity app; replacing the endless pile of printed pages from hints sites, keystroke cards from Adobe, Macromedia, et al, that litter media artists' desks the world over. Of course, any number of software instructors would lose a good chunk of their value, but, hey, that's progress.



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improving keyboard shortcuts
Authored by: sjk on May 08, '04 02:02:52AM
See John Gruber's Losers, Weepers article. Developers should be encouraging Apple to revamp the underlying implementation.

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