Hi Yuma, Shift seems to act as a secondary modifier on the Mac. In some instances, like adjusting sliders for sound or brightness, or moving splitters or resizing windows, pressing the shift key gives you fine control to move in smaller increments. In other cases, such as using tab, command-tab, or command-accent to move around, pressing shift with these keys reverses the movement directions. In the present case I think it was just used as a way to distinguish between two kinds of actions (making tabs or windows "active" for the focus or not).
The option key is another key used with decision points -- such as which iTunes library to open, or which device to boot from on startup, if you have more than one drive connected. HTH Cheers, Esther Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: > > Hi guys, > > So shift acts a bit like a secondary command list. That's good to > know :) > > I have looked at a list of keyboard shortcuts, but they vary from > context to context, or so it tends to make me believe. > > Thanks a lot for the info though, one more for the mac > > bbest > > Yuma > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
