This awesome trick that doesn't work!?!

[blinkofani]

Hi people,

While browsing another forum, someone there said that Logic had a nice feature where when a dialog box with multiple button options pops up, you can just type the first letter of the choice you want to select and it will be the same as clicking that choice(ex: when splitting a midi region and a note is at the split position, you get a dialog box with Split, Keep and another one i don't know how to translate in english!!). I'm trying this on my computer and it doesn't work Is there a pref somewhere i have to enable to get this or that person was full of it? Thanks.

 

Blink

[Scott Jackson]

It works here.

 

OS v10.5.8

Logic v9.1.5

[blinkofani]

Hi Scott,

Thanks for the reply. I forgot to mention that my OS and Logic are in French. Could it be that it's only working in English?

 

Blink

[Scott Jackson]

Thanks for the reply.

 

You're welcome.

 

I forgot to mention that my OS and Logic are in French. Could it be that it's only working in English?

 

I don't know but mine is in English. Seems it should work in any language.

 

It's an OS feature, I'll try it on my studio system later, it's running OS 10.6.8

[Scott Jackson]

Just tried it on my studio system and it works fine on OS 10.6.8.

[blinkofani]

Hi Scott,

Thanks for checking this out! But, crap!!! I'll change my OS to English to test this thing. It wouldn't be a big deal for Logic but for my other apps, i might be a bit lost if everything is in english. The devs being german folks, i doubt they would implement this only in english, though. Thanks again for your time on this.

 

Blink

[Scott Jackson]

Thanks again for your time on this.

 

You're welcome!

 

Let us know what your test results are.

[blinkofani]

Well, it works!! Don't ask me why it didn't yesterday. Pilot error, surely, but i wonder why. It's just one letter to input on the keyboard, i don't know where i could goof on this. It was flashing the screen like when you press a key and no shortcut is assigned to it. Anyway, thanks to Scott for testing this on his system.

 

Blink

[Scott Jackson]

It's just one letter to input on the keyboard, i don't know where i could goof on this. It was flashing the screen like when you press a key and no shortcut is assigned to it.

 

The only way I can reproduce the flashing screen in that situation is to press a key that does not relate to any of the choices in the window. So I would say it probably was pilot error. Lucky you weren't flying an airplane.

[blinkofani]

It's just one letter to input on the keyboard, i don't know where i could goof on this. It was flashing the screen like when you press a key and no shortcut is assigned to it.

 

The only way I can reproduce the flashing screen in that situation is to press a key that does not relate to any of the choices in the window. So I would say it probably was pilot error. Lucky you weren't flying an airplane.

LOL! I'll keep my day job....

 

Blink

[David Nahmani]

Keep, Shorten, Split... so K works, S activates "Shorten", but how do you activate "Split"?

 

What other dialogs allow you to do that? I tried a couple but they didn't work... for example trying to merge audio regions, getting the dialog "Non-contiguous audio regions require the creation of a new audio file! (Cancel - Create)": pressing C flashes the screen. Or trying to close an unsaved project, getting the dialog "Do you want to save..... (Don't Save - Cancel - Save)": Pressing D, C or S all flash the screen.

[Scott Jackson]

Keep, Shorten, Split... so K works, S activates "Shorten", but how do you activate "Split"?

 

Enter/Return

 

What other dialogs allow you to do that? I tried a couple but they didn't work... for example trying to merge audio regions, getting the dialog "Non-contiguous audio regions require the creation of a new audio file! (Cancel - Create)": pressing C flashes the screen. Or trying to close an unsaved project, getting the dialog "Do you want to save..... (Don't Save - Cancel - Save)": Pressing D, C or S all flash the screen.

 

I tried closing a Word document. When you get the dialogue box, "Do you want to save the changes you made to "doc name.doc"?, pressing D activates "Don't Save", pressing C activates "Cancel" and pressing S activates "Save". But you are right, it doesn't work on every situation.

[David Nahmani]

Yes, of course - and you can also press esc for Cancel, Command-D for "Don't Save", etc...

 

... but I'm talking about the technique we're discussing in this thread, pressing only the first letter of the desired option. So far I've only seen it work for two buttons of a three button alert window - does it work in any other alert windows?