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unable to resize windows and snapshot with keyboard shortcut on OS4.0
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hello, I am new and have just installed OS4.0 on my BPPC A1200 AGA.
I have seen that is no more possible to resize and snapshot windows with keyboard shortcuts as I did in OS3.9. You just have to do it from menu.
How is that? Forgotten?
Is there a workaround?
Thanx to all
S.

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@satiropan

We don't have any of the OS3.9 source code so some of the enhancements added to 3.1 have not been included in OS4.

Is it possible that the shortcuts you were using came from a third-party add-on that isn't supplied or doesn't work with OS4?

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tony
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no, they are from plain OS3.9 installation, even before Boing Bags, it was:
right amiga +. = resize window
right amiga + t = snapshot all
I think they are in the rom update of OS3.9

edit,
I have found out that having 2 more shortcuts on the windows menu, was a feature of the italian localization on os3.9, in fact a plain english installation didn't had those 2 shortcuts.
seems now that os4.0 was developed on an english localized machine and so the shortcuts are missing :((
hope some one will be able to create a patch.


Edited by satiropan on 2009/1/20 22:22:05
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@satiropan

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satiropan wrote:
no, they are from plain OS3.9 installation, even before Boing Bags, it was:
right amiga +. = resize window
right amiga + t = snapshot all
I think they are in the rom update of OS3.9

edit,
I have found out that having 2 more shortcuts on the windows menu, was a feature of the italian localization on os3.9, in fact a plain english installation didn't had those 2 shortcuts.
seems now that os4.0 was developed on an english localized machine and so the shortcuts are missing :((
hope some one will be able to create a patch.

The shortcuts are not in a ROM (and were not in the ROM Update), they are in a catalog, or - for the builtin English version - in the program or library in question, in this case workbench.library.

Translators should not add extra menu shortcuts to OS catalogs, and should always keep the shortcut keys unchanged from the English version. This is because when you are used to the shortcut keys, and you use them on another machine, e.g. at a user group or whatever, or if someone uses your machine and changes the language, you should still be sure to invoke the menu function you expect with your well-known shortcut. not something quite different and possibly more dangerous. And in the cases where new shortcut keys are added, we all too often see keys being duplicated, because the translator who adds them hasn't checked all the menus and submenus for that key being in use already.

I know that this adding of extra keys in various translations, and "translating" other keys, was "in vogue" back in 3.5/3.9 times, but it is a really bad idea for the above mentioned reasone, and we should try to avoid it today.

So better get used to the original keys (which I hope are the ones used in the Italian OS4 translation today).

BTW, RA + . is the shortcut for Window->Clean up by->Column; RA + T is unused. The two functions you mention do not have any standard shortcuts.


Best regards,

Niels
(Danish ATO, translator of OS4 -- and 3.9 and 3.5)

P.S. If you really want to invoke shortcutless WB menu items with a keypress, it can still be done: FKey in connection with an ARexx script addressing Workbench to invoke the menu item.

Only Amiga ...

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@nbache

well, today I just did a 3.1 installation on an empty HD, actually as soon as I set the italian locale, some new shortcuts appear on the windows menu, so it is so old this matter, I will check on 3.0...
I understand what you said, but other Amigans herein Italy have found this lack disturbing, after all it has been years we are using these shortcuts....
I am wondering whether there is som workaround

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@satiropan

I mentioned a possible workaround in my P.S. above.

Best regards,

Niels

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@nbache

yes, but can you give an example? I am not expert in amiga dos and less in arexx.
let say that I want to resize a window, how should I act ?

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@nbache

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Translators should not add extra menu shortcuts to OS catalogs, and should always keep the shortcut keys unchanged from the English version.

And this is why I doesn't use italian language on my
OS4.1 installation, I doesn't checked recently, but on an
old 4.0 version for example the combination RA+C
was for deleting files, not a nice one.

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@satiropan

Create a script with the file below and run it with Fkey.

/* Bind "Open" to the Enter/Return key */
ADDRESS workbench

KEYBOARD ADD NAME open KEY 'return' CMD "'MENU INVOKE ICONS.OPEN"


You can use the same method for other actions: ICONS.DELETE.....

Philippe 'Elwood' FERRUCCI
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http://elwoodb.free.fr
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@satiropan

Create a script with the file below and run it with Fkey.

/* Bind "Open" to the Enter/Return key */
ADDRESS workbench

KEYBOARD ADD NAME open KEY 'return' CMD "'MENU INVOKE ICONS.OPEN"


You can use the same method for other actions: ICONS.DELETE.....

And WINDOW.RESIZETOFIT.

Best regards,

Niels

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