Mac & Photoshop Function Keys and/or volume

Question for Mac & Photoshop users.. I want to use the Function keys for PS actions.. however I really love the volume buttons for music. If I turn on Use all Function Keys as F1, F2 etc, I can use the Fn keys for PS, but the volume options go away.. Can I have my cake and eat it too? Thanks!

Have you checked the System/Keyboard preference pane to see if the Function key option is checked?
OT

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Have you checked the System/Keyboard preference pane to see if the Function key option is checked?
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RE: RE: Function keys and droplists

I had to implement the same problem in a window. I wanted Ctrl-F to be the
same as the "Fetch" button. I forgot the SetAsFunctionKey existed, so I
created a Menu choice with a shortcut of "Find." I have had no problems,
when
Ctrl-F is pressed the "menuWidget.activate" event is posted and no keystroke
events are sent at all.
Greg.Nyberg wrote>>>From: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:20:40 -0600
Subject: RE: Function keys and droplists
Also note that if you set a cntrl-<letter> as a function key, any time the
user types that letter (without the cntrl) in any entry field on the window,
the field gets an "aftervaluechange" event fired. Normally aftervaluechange
doesn't fire until after you leave the field... This caused us significant
problems in the use of cntrl-<letter> key combinations, since we were
validating the contents of fields as the user left them in some cases. We
went back to only using the upper-row function keys, avoiding F1 (help) and
F10 which have undesirable side effects as you describe. F4 is also a
problem as it tends to open droplists before getting processed as a function
key, but we could live with that.
- -Greg
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Kunst [SMTP:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 3:18 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: Ostlund, Scott CWT-MSP
Subject: Re: Function keys and droplists
It is a general problem with the SetAsFunctionKey method that the
default behaviour of the key - which is present if you do not call
SetAsFunctionKey - is not disabled after the key is used as function
key. We have this problem under Windows: the F10 key has a default
behaviour of activating the window's menu. Now if you set F10 as
function key, the corresponding Forte event is posted to the window
but
the menu is still activated. Forte refuses to acknowledge this as a
bug,
but maybe requests from several people can convince them ...
Ostlund, Scott CWT-MSP wrote:
>
> Picture a grid with a bunch of widgets within it. Inside this
grid there is
> a 'Find' button accelerated with the letter 'F'. Also inside
there is a
> droplist. When the user places focus on the droplist and hits
Ctrl+F to
> shortcut the find button the method to handle the button click is
called but
> the droplist changes to the first element beginning with the
letter 'F' as
> well. Does anyone know of a way to not change the droplist when I
am
> handling the letter 'F' as a function key?
Dr. Thomas Kunst mailto:[email protected]
sd&m GmbH & Co. KG http://www.sdm.de
software design & management
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I had to implement the same problem in a window. I wanted Ctrl-F to be the
same as the "Fetch" button. I forgot the SetAsFunctionKey existed, so I
created a Menu choice with a shortcut of "Find." I have had no problems,
when
Ctrl-F is pressed the "menuWidget.activate" event is posted and no keystroke
events are sent at all.
Greg.Nyberg wrote>>>From: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:20:40 -0600
Subject: RE: Function keys and droplists
Also note that if you set a cntrl-<letter> as a function key, any time the
user types that letter (without the cntrl) in any entry field on the window,
the field gets an "aftervaluechange" event fired. Normally aftervaluechange
doesn't fire until after you leave the field... This caused us significant
problems in the use of cntrl-<letter> key combinations, since we were
validating the contents of fields as the user left them in some cases. We
went back to only using the upper-row function keys, avoiding F1 (help) and
F10 which have undesirable side effects as you describe. F4 is also a
problem as it tends to open droplists before getting processed as a function
key, but we could live with that.
- -Greg
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Kunst [SMTP:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 3:18 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: Ostlund, Scott CWT-MSP
Subject: Re: Function keys and droplists
It is a general problem with the SetAsFunctionKey method that the
default behaviour of the key - which is present if you do not call
SetAsFunctionKey - is not disabled after the key is used as function
key. We have this problem under Windows: the F10 key has a default
behaviour of activating the window's menu. Now if you set F10 as
function key, the corresponding Forte event is posted to the window
but
the menu is still activated. Forte refuses to acknowledge this as a
bug,
but maybe requests from several people can convince them ...
Ostlund, Scott CWT-MSP wrote:
>
> Picture a grid with a bunch of widgets within it. Inside this
grid there is
> a 'Find' button accelerated with the letter 'F'. Also inside
there is a
> droplist. When the user places focus on the droplist and hits
Ctrl+F to
> shortcut the find button the method to handle the button click is
called but
> the droplist changes to the first element beginning with the
letter 'F' as
> well. Does anyone know of a way to not change the droplist when I
am
> handling the letter 'F' as a function key?
Dr. Thomas Kunst mailto:[email protected]
sd&m GmbH & Co. KG http://www.sdm.de
software design & management
Thomas-Dehler-Str. 27, 81737 Muenchen, Germany
Tel +49 89 63812-221 Fax -444
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Re: Function keys and droplists

It is a general problem with the SetAsFunctionKey method that the
default behaviour of the key - which is present if you do not call
SetAsFunctionKey - is not disabled after the key is used as function
key. We have this problem under Windows: the F10 key has a default
behaviour of activating the window's menu. Now if you set F10 as
function key, the corresponding Forte event is posted to the window but
the menu is still activated. Forte refuses to acknowledge this as a bug,
but maybe requests from several people can convince them ...
Ostlund, Scott CWT-MSP wrote:
>
Picture a grid with a bunch of widgets within it. Inside this grid there is
a 'Find' button accelerated with the letter 'F'. Also inside there is a
droplist. When the user places focus on the droplist and hits Ctrl+F to
shortcut the find button the method to handle the button click is called but
the droplist changes to the first element beginning with the letter 'F' as
well. Does anyone know of a way to not change the droplist when I am
handling the letter 'F' as a function key?--
Dr. Thomas Kunst mailto:[email protected]
sd&m GmbH & Co. KG http://www.sdm.de
software design & management
Thomas-Dehler-Str. 27, 81737 Muenchen, Germany
Tel +49 89 63812-221 Fax -444
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Also note that if you set a cntrl-<letter> as a function key, any time the
user types that letter (without the cntrl) in any entry field on the window,
the field gets an "aftervaluechange" event fired. Normally aftervaluechange
doesn't fire until after you leave the field... This caused us significant
problems in the use of cntrl-<letter> key combinations, since we were
validating the contents of fields as the user left them in some cases. We
went back to only using the upper-row function keys, avoiding F1 (help) and
F10 which have undesirable side effects as you describe. F4 is also a
problem as it tends to open droplists before getting processed as a function
key, but we could live with that.
-Greg
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Kunst [SMTP:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 3:18 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: Ostlund, Scott CWT-MSP
Subject: Re: Function keys and droplists
It is a general problem with the SetAsFunctionKey method that the
default behaviour of the key - which is present if you do not call
SetAsFunctionKey - is not disabled after the key is used as function
key. We have this problem under Windows: the F10 key has a default
behaviour of activating the window's menu. Now if you set F10 as
function key, the corresponding Forte event is posted to the window
but
the menu is still activated. Forte refuses to acknowledge this as a
bug,
but maybe requests from several people can convince them ...
Ostlund, Scott CWT-MSP wrote:
>
> Picture a grid with a bunch of widgets within it. Inside this
grid there is
> a 'Find' button accelerated with the letter 'F'. Also inside
there is a
> droplist. When the user places focus on the droplist and hits
Ctrl+F to
> shortcut the find button the method to handle the button click is
called but
> the droplist changes to the first element beginning with the
letter 'F' as
> well. Does anyone know of a way to not change the droplist when I
am
> handling the letter 'F' as a function key?
Dr. Thomas Kunst mailto:[email protected]
sd&m GmbH & Co. KG http://www.sdm.de
software design & management
Thomas-Dehler-Str. 27, 81737 Muenchen, Germany
Tel +49 89 63812-221 Fax -444
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