Difference between revisions of "Mac OS X Porting - Keyboard Shortcuts"

Revision as of 22:22, 3 July 2007

Contributors

• Ismael Merzaq: Ismael
• Mox Soini: Mox

Introduction

For most of the keyboard shortcuts in OpenOffice.org, the Mac OS X port will follow the other OpenOffice.org platforts, to maintain consistency and allow people to use several platforms without much re-learning.

However, there are some special cases that require Mac OS X port to make exceptions in shortcuts, compared to the other platforms:

• Mac OS X System has global keyboard shortcuts that override existing OpenOffice.org shortcuts
• Apple Human Interface Guidelines (AHIG) requires that all Mac OS X applications define certain common set of shortcuts. That common set might cause a change for shortcut to have different functionality.

  Example:
  Some key accelerators are already used by Mac OS X, and so Mac OS X catches them and does the associated action,
  causing OpenOffice.org to not see them. 
  
  For example, when we press F9 in openoffice (native version or X11 version), the fields aren't refreshed, 
  because the Mac OS X function Exposé is launched and catches the key accelerator (to refresh the fields, go to
  tools>refresh>fields in the menu.
  
  What we have to do is to change the conflicting key accelerators for OpenOffice.org.

Mac OS X Shortcuts

The following table describes the differences in keyboard shortcuts and the reasons for the changes. For detailed information, see: Apple Human Interface Guidelines, AHIG for key accelerators and menus and for menu examples