Re: Controls & Key Equivalents

On 2 Dec 2010, at 17:35, Hamish Allan wrote:

> On 2 December 2010 15:48, Eric Gorr <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> So, the question still remains how to appropriately let the user know there is a key equivalent when that checkbox might be in the middle of the dialog and there may also be 10 or more of them, each with their own key equivalent.
> 
> I think the approach Apple usually takes is to identify commonly-used
> functionality and give it its own menu item.
> 
> For instance, in Interface Builder, Shift-Cmd-I brings up the
> inspector window, but there are also individual shortcuts Cmd-1
> through Cmd-4 to choose between the different inspector tabs.

+1.  A menu item also makes the keyboard shortcut easily discoverable (because the shortcut is shown on the menu item).

Francis