Well, my PC keyboard has only one "alt" (which, in linux, does not seem to bring up extra characters)... and I think the Macintosh is the same. Also, I think it's against all the Macintosh rules to use "alt" for a key accelerator anyway.
I don't know in Windows what Alt keys do, but I think there too they select alternate characters. If this is true, it's probably best to stop using "alt" accelerators, at least on Mac and Windows, although perhaps they could stay as they are on linux.
I think I have to just find "control" keys for making GUIs...
cheers Miller
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 07:49:11PM -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Miller Puckette wrote:
Should Pd be using Alt-shortcuts at all, if that prevents people in Finland (and doubtless other places as well) from getting to characters that require the alt key to type? Maybe I should move everything over to "control" (Windoze/Linux) and "command" (Apple).
On my keyboard (of the "cf" type: French Canadian), AltCar (aka AltGr) is a different modifier than the regular Alt.
Afair, it's the same on QWERTZ "kezboards".
Mathieu Bouchard -=- Montréal QC Canada -=- http://artengine.ca/matju