OptionKey madness

[Ken Norris]

Hi Richard,

> Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 11:01:52 -0800
> From: Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
> Subject: Re: OptionKey madness

> Okay, the numeric function keys are unusable to an app because most OSes
> reserve some of them, and numeric Option/Alt keys are out because Apple
> reserves some of them.
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Not sure what you mean. On the Mac, the first 4 function keys have
conveniently attached some default things _available_ if the user wants to
implement them, and some users may have the habit, so in this respect you
may not wish to change them.

But AFAIK, function keys 5 to 12 (that's 8 of them) have no caveats to being
assigned tasks. When you add the combos CMD/Fkey, OPT/Fkey, CTRL/Fkey, that
gives you 32 total.

Ken N.