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I don't get it
Authored by: karbonkid on Feb 03, '02 10:01:18AM

I have been using cmd-tab in Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X. They both do the same thing. So I don't understand why the Mac OS 9 command-tab is different than the Mac OS X command-tab.

cmd-tab switches applications and it always has



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you don't get it cause you don't read ;-)
Authored by: oem on Feb 04, '02 01:35:28PM
cmd-tab switches applications and it always has
Yeah I do know this ! But I do know that in Os 9 (& Os 8,5…) you could change that command-tab with ctrl-tab. because all adobe apps and xpress uses also the command-tab !! ;-) there was 'prestissimo' to do that and in Os 9 a built-in applescript that can be found with the help center typing 'Application Switcher'. I believe I'm not the only one to use command-tab to switch tools…but who knows?

I now use ai10 and Psß7. Xpress is going to go to hell to see if I'm here.
STILL NOT running in Os X !! they really take us for stupid fools.
beside transprency features of indesign, layers, and much more will suit me I know it !
So I will try to change the shorcut in those apps and let command-tab to the dock/finder. :(
until apple provides an alternative…?



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I don't get it
Authored by: Silverback on Mar 07, '02 05:03:18AM

Command-tab also switches between tools in certain applications if you have turned application switching off in the Finder



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I don't get it
Authored by: paragen on Jul 05, '04 02:46:16AM

In third party programs such as QuarkXpress, command tab and command shift tab scroll up and down the tool box. For keyboard oriented people such as myself this quickens up the process of changing tools rather than taking your hand off the keyboard to the mouse and dragging the pointer to a new tool. Before OSX the first thing I did when allotted a new computer was open the help index and turn keyboard shortcuts for application switcher OFF.



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