Fw: RE: FM9 - closing pods&panels

[Mary Sheahan]

I hadn't thought to use the change-focus keyboard shortcut Shift+F7 -- I was searching documentation for text about closing&docking pods&panels... Lief's idea is a step in the right direction for me. 

If anyone from Adobe is listening, please let me know if there *is* a keyboard shortcut, or consider making the close-dialog-box keyboard shortcuts work for pods&panels in a future update.  

Thanks,
Mary


--- On Tue, 5/25/10, Lief Erickson <lief at networkinstruments.com> wrote:

> From: Lief Erickson <lief at networkinstruments.com>
> Subject: RE: FM9 - closing pods&panels
> To: "Mary Sheahan" <mhs_tw at yahoo.com>
> Date: Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 10:11 AM
> Go ahead and post it back to the list
> if you want, Mary.
> 
> BTW, the Shift+F7 was not a new keyboard shortcut to bring
> the focus from the dialog box back to the main document.
> It's been around for a long time.
> 
> For condition colors, pick stuff that's readable on screen,
> but then also use the over/underline characteristics, too.
> That's helpful for me. I don't work with eight conditions,
> but perhaps six. 
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> -Lief
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mary Sheahan [mailto:mhs_tw at yahoo.com]
> 
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 4:38 PM
> To: Lief Erickson
> Subject: RE: FM9 - closing pods&panels
> 
> >Shift+F7 does take you back to your document at the
> point of the cursor
> 
> Thanks Lief that's definitely helpful!  Not a full
> answer as you say--but it's a major improvement, and one I
> had not found searching the documentation. Mind if I send it
> back to the full list?
> 
> Now I can move on to figuring out how to deal with the
> changed conditional-text coloration! (We have well over 8
> conditions...so having multiple-conditions "averaged colors"
> has already driven one of my co-workers back to FM7.1 for
> now....eep.) 
> 
> Many thanks,
> Mary
> 
> --- On Mon, 5/24/10, Lief Erickson <lief at networkinstruments.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Lief Erickson <lief at networkinstruments.com>
> > Subject: RE: FM9 - closing pods&panels
> > To: "Mary Sheahan" <mhs_tw at yahoo.com>
> > Date: Monday, May 24, 2010, 4:31 PM
> > Doubtful. The pods and panels are
> > unique ducks, and I don't think the programmers were
> > thinking keyboard shortcuts when they developed them.
> Sadly.
> > They also made some keyboard things more difficult.
> (There
> > are some nice features in FM9, keyboard usability
> isn't one
> > of them though.) I wanted to point you to that list
> of
> > shortcuts in case you hadn't seen it. 
> > 
> > If you don't want to close the pod or panel, I've
> found
> > that Shift+F7 does take you back to your document at
> the
> > point of the cursor. Perhaps not exactly what you
> want, but
> > could be a step in the right direction.
> > 
> > Sorry I couldn't be of more help,
> > 
> > -Lief
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mary Sheahan [mailto:mhs_tw at yahoo.com]
> > 
> > Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 3:13 PM
> > To: Lief Erickson
> > Subject: RE: FM9 - closing pods&panels
> > 
> > I've actually been looking through that since Friday
> and
> > have not found any mention of a way to redock/close
> > pods&panels.  
> > Alt-F4 works with traditional dialog boxes -- but
> > apparently no longer with paragraph designer and
> other
> > pods.
> > 
> > Or am I missing something obvious?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Mary
> > 
> > --- On Mon, 5/24/10, Lief Erickson <lief at networkinstruments.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Lief Erickson <lief at networkinstruments.com>
> > > Subject: RE: FM9 - closing pods&panels
> > > To: "Mary Sheahan" <mhs_tw at yahoo.com>,
> > "framers at lists.frameusers.com"
> > <framers at lists.frameusers.com>,
> > "framers at omsys.com"
> > <framers at omsys.com>
> > > Date: Monday, May 24, 2010, 3:23 PM
> > > Hi Mary--
> > > 
> > > You can find all of the keyboard shortcuts for
> FM9
> > here:
> > > 
> > > http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/9.0/Using/WSd817046a44e105e21e63e3d11ab7f7862b-7ffd.html
> > > 
> > > Although some things have changed a bit, you can
> still
> > use
> > > keyboard shortcuts for a lot of your work in
> FM9.
> > > 
> > > -Lief
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
> > > [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com]
> > > On Behalf Of Mary Sheahan
> > > Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 1:55 PM
> > > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com;
> > > framers at omsys.com
> > > Subject: FM9 - closing pods&panels
> > > 
> > > Hi folks--
> > > 
> > > Is there a keyboard method to close
> > pods&panels? To
> > > return them to the doc?  
> > > 
> > > Count me in the long list of people with mixed
> > feelings
> > > about FM9.
> > > I'm a long-time FM user who dropped offlist a
> few
> > years
> > > ago; I'm back now that we finally got budgeted
> for an
> > > upgrade...big change.  I love some of the new
> > > features.  I'm upset about the increasing
> reliance on
> > the
> > > mouse -- it's much easier on my hands to use
> keyboard
> > > commands than mouse.  And admittedly I'm in my
> first
> > day
> > > using it but... geez, did they *really* eliminate
> that
> > may
> > > of the escape sequences!?  
> > > 
> > > Thanks all,
> > > Mary
> > > 
> > >
> >
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