XStick(TM) Help - Keyboard

XStick(TM) Keyboard

Being an old DOS/unix kind-o-guy, I've tried to make XStick(TM) as keyboard friendly as possible. Wherever I could I've assigned hot-keys to enable the user to quickly change display and editing modes and launch/close menu items and subscreens. Apparently the style-guides for the Macintosh are against this type of behavior, but it's there on the Macintosh too, to some extent. (The normal Alt-letter underscore used in the Microsoft Windows/X Window environments is NOT done on Macintosh my sources tell me, but I did implement some meta-key assignments into the menus.) The following key assignments are configured for controls other than the menus and underlined button commands (hopefully these are somewhat intuitive, I had a real struggle finding unique key assignments for all the important functions):

Alt-Q: Quit the program.
Down Arrow: Scroll the notation canvas down 1 unit.
Up Arrow: Scroll the notation canvas up 1 unit.
Page Down: Scroll the notation canvas down 1 page.
Page up: Scroll the notation canvas up 1 page.
Ctrl-R: Displays the fretboard notes in the "root" style.
Ctrl-N: Displays the fretboard notes in the "note" style.
Alt-r: (read) Activates the file open dialog.
Alt-w: (write) Activates the save button using the default name.
Alt-p: Activates the print file dialog.
Escape: Activates the Tool Palette "move" button.
Ctrl-c: Activates the Tool Palette "cut/delete" button.
Ctrl-T: Activates the Tool Palette "text" button.
Ctrl-f: Activates the finger selection mode on the notation canvas.
space: Activates the string/fret selection mode on the notation canvas.
comma: Activates the transpose selection mode on the notation canvas.
slash: Acivates the duration selection mode on the notation canvas.
Ctrl-t: Activates the tie-drawing mode on the notation canvas.
Ctrl-a: (alter) Activates the bend-drawing mode on the notation canvas.
Ctrl-z: Clears the accidental mode on the notation canvas.
Ctrl-b: Activates the flatted note mode on the notation canvas.
Ctrl-n: Activates the natural note mode on the notation canvas.
numbersign (#): Activates the sharp note mode on the notation canvas.
period: Toggles dotted-note mode on/off.
Ctrl-w: Activates whole note mode.
Ctrl-h: Activates half note mode.
Ctrl-q: Activates quarter note mode.
Ctrl-e: Activates eighth note mode.
Ctrl-s: Activates sixteenth note mode.
Ctrl-i: Activates index finger mode.
Ctrl-m: Activates middle finger mode.
Ctrl-r: Activates ring finger mode.
Ctrl-p: Activates pinky finger mode.
Ctrl-W: Activates whole rest mode.
Ctrl-H: Activates half rest mode.
Ctrl-Q: Activates quarter rest mode.
Ctrl-E: Activates eighth rest mode.
Ctrl-S: Activates sixteenth rest mode.
Ctrl-B: Toggles long-bar mode on/off.
Ctrl-1: Selects single staff line mode.
Ctrl-2: Selects double staff line mode.
Ctrl-3: Selects double-begin-repeat staff line mode.
Ctrl-4: Selects double-end-repeat staff line mode.

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