Alt F4 does not quit photoshop

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alicia_chastain
Feb 17, 2004
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Platform – Windows XP
Product version – Photoshop CS version 8

Using the key combination Alt+F4 quits most windows applications. The key combination used to quit photoshop too. Why did you guys change it? I get changing the quick key to Ctrl+Q for the mac converts, but for us windows folks, it breaks an deeply ingrained behaviour. I’m sad. I have an action whose quick key is F4. Out of habit, I try to quit Photoshop by Alt+F4. Everytime Photoshop starts to run my action as a result. It too me awhile to figure out what was happening. Bummer. Please stick with these well established windows OS conventions.
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Brian
Feb 17, 2004
I get changing the quick key to Ctrl+Q for the mac converts…

Regardless of any OS-level key commands, CTRL-Q has *always* been used to quit Photoshop; this is not a recent change to pacify Mac converts or anyone else. Why ALT+F4 no longer works I cannot say.

As an aside, who was the dim lightbulb at Microsoft who decided ALT+F4 was the most user-friendly key command to close a window? Jeez…

Brian
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alicia_chastain
Feb 17, 2004
Yeah, I guess you’re right about the Ctrl+Q thing. I just always use Alt+F4. If I click on the window’s title bar, I can use the drop down provided by the OS to close the window (which techinically is what the Alt+F4 action does I guess). I tried some other things.

I deleted my action with the F4 quick key and Photoshop quit just as I expected. So it looks like there is actually a bug with the actions palette. The palette isn’t registering when I’m holding down the alt key. So it just tries to run my action.

I feel better knowing it’s an obscure bug and not a change to Photoshop. Now I just have to retrain myself to use a different quick key for my action 😉

Why microsoft pick Alt+F4, no telling. Some engineer probably thought it made sense to him.
MM
Mick_Murphy
Feb 17, 2004
You need to search for somebody with a very long forefinger and a very long thumb which can bend to 180 degrees to the forefinger to find the culprit. Probably Bill Gates. Hands evolved that way to grip onto very large wads of money.

Anyway, I don’t think that is a bug. It works for me with an F4 action and alt-F4 quits at the same time. Not that I’ve ever used it. I’m an ex Mac user.
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Temekono_Yaro
Feb 18, 2004
I’m an ex Mac user.

Welcome to the darkside. 🙂
MM
Mick_Murphy
Feb 18, 2004
I’ve been on the darkside a long time now. I needed Microsoft Access.
TY
Temekono_Yaro
Feb 18, 2004
Wow, truly the darkside indeed. Dath vader’s key even. 😀
MM
Mick_Murphy
Feb 18, 2004
I know. I sold my children into slavery to buy it.
LH
Lawrence_Hudetz
Feb 18, 2004
I think there is a bug in Actions (PSCS). F5 is supposed to (and does) activate the actions pallet. But when I set up a new action, I picked F5 inadvertently, then it did play my Action, not the Brush.
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dave_milbut
Feb 18, 2004
when you select an F key to run an action it over-rides any previous setup.
SF
Scott_Falkner
Feb 18, 2004
Gee, Control-Q is so non-intitive. Who has that type of brain that associates the letter Q with the word Quit? Alt-F4, now that’s the way my brain works. I also dig the fact that the keys are about a km apart.
LH
Lawrence_Hudetz
Feb 18, 2004
Don’t make the mistake of hitting ctrl Q when you want the quick mask! I did once and like a zombie, I said ok.

Eeeeek! 🙁
SF
Scott_Falkner
Feb 18, 2004
Ouch!
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Brian
Feb 18, 2004
wrote:
I’ve been on the darkside a long time now. I needed Microsoft Access.

That’s the reason you switched? There are several non-FileMaker databases available for the Mac that blow Access out of the water (MySQL being one of them).
LH
Lawrence_Hudetz
Feb 18, 2004
Everybody has stuff that blows MS out of the water!

That’s why they have 90+% of the market, I suppose.

Yesterday, I decided to check out the new Epson scanner. I went in to my supplier, we turned on the scanner. After fiddling with it and exiting and restarting, I was able to run the first check; the illumination uniformity test. Next, load a piece of film. It gets stuck on lamp warm-up. Try to exit. Everything freezes. Re-boot. Scanner runs. I am setting Levels and the densitometer disappears. No problem, it’s a neg I know well. I finish setup, hit scan. Completely freezes up and nothing works. Reboot, and finally, the digital guy says "I have been having a bunch of problems with Photoshop CS on this machine. Bring it back in a day or two and I’ll have the other machine configured.

The wayward machine? Mac G5. The "other" machine, PC with XP.

It’s not for lack of experience with Macs These people grew up with Mac and really hated to have to accommodate the PC.

I have run several scanner tests in that shop, and 5 out of 6 runs, the system screwed up. They were all Macs.

The one out of six, flawless, was the PC.

Apocryphal, yep. Isolated clinical examples, yep. Make me a believer in Mac invincibility?

Nope.

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