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Authored by: alec kinnear on May 06, '04 11:39:48AM

iKey is great. i don't know if it will let you do exactly what it is you want to do with the menus but it will let you target any menu item or window or whatever - even in sequences, with the keyboard shortcut of your choice.

it is the most stable power utility i have ever used. an amazing creation. philipe hupé is the creator. la brillance française.

i've used it to designate a key for switching the finder window views to column view with no shortcuts window and toolbar (OS 9) and the standard OS X finder view. have your cake and eat it too.

and the best part is you can make it do whatever you want in whatever application you want.

don't like the user interface - fix it. in minutes, not hours. apologies for the superlatives but iKey is that good.

and it's priced right at $20.

http://scriptsoftware.com/ikey/

another small but important use is a keyboard shortcut (cross application) for any boilerplate text you use.



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Well - no :(
Authored by: TvE on May 07, '04 05:27:51AM

iKey looks as a great application - something that could have been inspired by Quickeys (that I used a lot in the pre-OS X days :)

Unfortunately I am not able to create a shortcut to the Menu itself - only to an item in the menu or an item in a submenu.

If I delete the name of the menuitem (to try to convince the app to only show the menu not the menuitem) the result is a crash of iKey, so I guess there is room for some validation of the "objects" one creates ;-)

The app does look to have great potential so I'll send the programmer an e-mail with my featurerequest and - off course - also a link to this thread...



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Correction
Authored by: TvE on May 09, '04 08:36:20AM

Due to a user error - they DO happen once in a while here end there - I did'nt notice the "Display only menu" - THAT make it do what I want it to do(!)

The developer was so kind as to inform me about that issue within 24 hours - great, I am gonna love that app!



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