How To Set Keyboard Shortcuts.

PS CS2.

I now have my friend here with his tower, containing PS CS2 (WXP PRO SP2). He wants to customize a few keyboard shortcuts. I am trying to help him. I find Menu>Edit>KeyboardShortcuts fine. I quickly did a save in order to make a new file instead of wrecking the default fine. I selected ‘Application Menu’ and double-clicked on ‘file’. I left-clicked on ‘browse’ (which he wanted to change), and ‘Alt+Ctrl+O’ was highlighted and in fact underlined. He wants ‘F1’ to be usable for browsing, so I pressed the F1 key fully expecting the default key-sequence to be replaced by F1. Nothing happened.

What am I doing wrong?

On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:58:08 GMT, Jethro wrote:

PS CS2.

I now have my friend here with his tower, containing PS CS2 (WXP PRO SP2). He wants to customize a few keyboard shortcuts. I am trying to help him. I find Menu>Edit>KeyboardShortcuts fine. I quickly did a save in order to make a new file instead of wrecking the default fine. I selected ‘Application Menu’ and double-clicked on ‘file’. I left-clicked on ‘browse’ (which he wanted to change), and ‘Alt+Ctrl+O’ was highlighted and in fact underlined. He wants ‘F1’ to be usable for browsing, so I pressed the F1 key fully expecting the default key-sequence to be replaced by F1. Nothing happened.

What am I doing wrong?

if your on a pc its prob that F1 is reserved for help file access, and since it is that way on all windows programs it maybe reserved in the os for that purpose and unchangeable by other programs.

On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 17:48:00 GMT, rubik <rubik{remove}@smartt.com> wrote:

On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:58:08 GMT, Jethro wrote:

PS CS2.

I now have my friend here with his tower, containing PS CS2 (WXP PRO SP2). He wants to customize a few keyboard shortcuts. I am trying to help him. I find Menu>Edit>KeyboardShortcuts fine. I quickly did a save in order to make a new file instead of wrecking the default fine. I selected ‘Application Menu’ and double-clicked on ‘file’. I left-clicked on ‘browse’ (which he wanted to change), and ‘Alt+Ctrl+O’ was highlighted and in fact underlined. He wants ‘F1’ to be usable for browsing, so I pressed the F1 key fully expecting the default key-sequence to be replaced by F1. Nothing happened.

What am I doing wrong?

if your on a pc its prob that F1 is reserved for help file access, and since it is that way on all windows programs it maybe reserved in the os for that purpose and unchangeable by other programs.

It is a PC, and I should have added that I tried other function keys with the same result. In fact, I couldn’t change the existing shortcut to anything at all.

Jethro wrote:

On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 17:48:00 GMT, rubik <rubik{remove}@smartt.com> wrote:

On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:58:08 GMT, Jethro wrote:

PS CS2.

I now have my friend here with his tower, containing PS CS2 (WXP PRO SP2). He wants to customize a few keyboard shortcuts. I am trying to help him. I find Menu>Edit>KeyboardShortcuts fine. I quickly did a save in order to make a new file instead of wrecking the default fine. I selected ‘Application Menu’ and double-clicked on ‘file’. I left-clicked on ‘browse’ (which he wanted to change), and ‘Alt+Ctrl+O’ was highlighted and in fact underlined. He wants ‘F1’ to be usable for browsing, so I pressed the F1 key fully expecting the default key-sequence to be replaced by F1. Nothing happened.

What am I doing wrong?

if your on a pc its prob that F1 is reserved for help file access, and since it is that way on all windows programs it maybe reserved in the os for that purpose and unchangeable by other programs.

It is a PC, and I should have added that I tried other function keys with the same result. In fact, I couldn’t change the existing shortcut to anything at all.

F-keys are reserved for actions AFAIK. Have you tried a key combo that does not include an F-key? If your friend really wants to use F-keys, the trick is to record the menu in an action and set an F-key to that action rather than to use the Keyboard Shortcuts menu.