topic Re: loss of keys on mac in Installation & update

loss of keys on mac

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 08:01:54 GMT

I have somehow lost the option to use the keys x and r when entering dimensions and/or coordinates, y key is still available and also if I place text down then both x and r will type.
I have quit archicad (latest 9) with no luck and also restarted the machine - no luck again, only thing now is a re-install, just what you want when trying to get drawings out

very strange!

we have also had occasions when the delete key stops working, but that is normally solved by re-starting.

Re: loss of keys on mac

Achille Pavlidis — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 08:53:08 GMT

have you checked the keyboard shortcuts on the work environment?

Re: loss of keys on mac

__archiben — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:32:59 GMT

cadaron wrote:
I have somehow lost the option to use the keys x and r when entering dimensions and/or coordinates, y key is still available and also if I place text down then both x and r will type.
I have quit archicad (latest 9) with no luck and also restarted the machine - no luck again, only thing now is a re-install, just what you want when trying to get drawings out

very strange!

do you have NUMLOCK on?

we have also had occasions when the delete key stops working, but that is normally solved by re-starting.

yeah - ESC and BACKSPACE stop working on a regular basis - only restarting archiCAD will work. no idea what causes it. haven't had a chance to investigate . . .

~/archiben

Re: loss of keys on mac

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:41:50 GMT

good point achille.
I have recently allocated shortcut keys using x and r, but having re-installed archicad the coordinate keys x & r now work but I have imported my environment and the short cut keys for rotate (r) and explode (x) still work as well as moving an item by a certain distance in the coordinate box.

Not sure what all this means, but a re-install cured it

Re: loss of keys on mac

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:43:51 GMT

[quote="~/archiben"

do you have NUMLOCK on?

Working on a mac archiben, not aware of number lock on the mac keyboard

Re: loss of keys on mac

__archiben — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:45:55 GMT

cadaron wrote:
Working on a mac archiben, not aware of number lock on the mac keyboard

F6 on a laptop keyboard - happens to me all the time . . . . your keyboard may be very different . . ?

~/archiben

Re: loss of keys on mac

__archiben — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:51:53 GMT

cadaron wrote:
but I have imported my environment and the short cut keys for rotate (r) and explode (x) still work as well as moving an item by a certain distance in the coordinate box.

Not sure what all this means, but a re-install cured it

doesn't sound too healthy though . . . are you saying that when you have something selected you can use single key shortcuts 'r' and 'x' (wtf are you doing exploding so often anyway?! ), but when you start a translation command they then work in the co-ordinate box?

what happens if you select, press 'r' to rotate, and then press 'r' again to enter a radius value to begin your rotation from?

~/archiben