option click, control click, etc

Jim Sims sims at ezpzapps.com
Thu Jun 25 03:34:57 EDT 2009


On Jun 25, 2009, at 9:11 AM, Kay C Lan wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 3:07 AM, Jim Sims <sims at ezpzapps.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jun 24, 2009, at 8:12 PM, Devin Asay wrote:
>>
>> Apple calls them keyboard shortcuts. The standard way of expressing  
>> them
>>> seems to be Command-Option-L, with caps and hyphens.

<snip>

>> In the case of Control-Click this use to be used to bring up a  
>> 'Contextual
> Menu', but in my latest copy of OS X The Missing Manual, I see in  
> the Index
> 'Contextual Menus' says - see Shortcut Menus. So anything to do with
> Control-Click should be referenced to a Shortcut Menu.

I found this from Apple:  http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1343

"A keyboard shortcut is a way to invoke a function in Mac OS X by  
pressing a combination of keys on your keyboard."

and further on...

"A modifier key is a part of many key combinations. A modifier key  
alters the way other keystrokes or mouse clicks are interpreted by Mac  
OS X. Modifier keys include: Command, Control, Option, Shift, Caps  
Lock, and (on portable Macs) the fn key."

So, for example, to open the file log in my app one can mouse click  
with the option key down. To open the timer/billing window you mouse  
click with the control key down. It would seem that the terms I am  
looking for would also include Modifier Key. I'm getting way too picky  
for my usual sloppy self.  ;-P

sims



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