Using 1.5.7 (1464), I realized that the command-shift-A shortcut for Add New Files... doesn't work to add files to a project. I just get a system beep.
I've seen no discussion of this here, aside from a 2005 post that said it should start working once you've manually displayed the menu, so I'm guessing this isn't a common problem. Yet I'm seeing it on two different Macs. Command-Shift-N, which is on the File menu as well as the gear menu, does work. Command-shift-G, which is also on the gear menu (and not any other menu), doesn't work either.
Is this in fact a known problem? Is there a workaround, other than QuicKeys/etc? I took a look at KeyBindings.dict, but I'm not sure if I can add command-keystrokes that way, or what the setting would be called, etc.
Jay Levitt
On 30 Aug 2008, at 16:46, Jay Levitt wrote:
Using 1.5.7 (1464), I realized that the command-shift-A shortcut for Add New Files... doesn't work to add files to a project. I just get a system beep. [...]
Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 30 Aug 2008, at 16:46, Jay Levitt wrote:
Using 1.5.7 (1464), I realized that the command-shift-A shortcut for Add New Files... doesn't work to add files to a project. I just get a system beep. [...]
Yeah, that was the post I was referring to (sorry, I got the year wrong). That doesn't work for me, if I understand it right; the following sequence recreates the problem:
1. Open a project 2. Click on the gear menu to open it 3. Click somewhere else to close it 4. Press command-shift-A 5. Beep!
IIUC, once I've opened the gear menu the first time, Command-Shift-A should work. right? Even if I click on the gear menu and leave it open, Command-Shift-A still just beeps.
Maybe it's still the same bug, but the behavior has changed in Leopard?
Jay
On 2 Sep 2008, at 13:42, Jay Levitt wrote:
On 30 Aug 2008, at 16:46, Jay Levitt wrote:
Using 1.5.7 (1464), I realized that the command-shift-A shortcut for Add New Files... doesn't work to add files to a project. I just get a system beep. [...]
Yeah, that was the post I was referring to [...]
Maybe it's still the same bug, but the behavior has changed in Leopard?
Yes, menu system was changed significantly for Leopard, so the problem may have another manifestation there, bottom line; the shortcuts do not work.
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