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According to critics, an eavesdropper, constantly striving to go behind the curtains of heaven in order to steal divine secrets. May grant wishes.
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Bio?
Species: featherless biped, chocolate addict
Roots: born in Sweden — lived also in Switzerland, USA, UK — mixed up genes from Sweden, Norway, India, Germany
Languages: French, English, Swedish, German, Portuguese, Latin, Ada, Perl, Java, assembly languages, Pascal, C/C++, etc.
Roles: entrepreneur, programme manager, methodology lead, quality and risk manager, writer, director of technology, project lead, solutions architect — as well as gardener, factory worker, farmhand, supermarket cleaner, programmer, student, teacher, language lawyer, traveller, soldier, lecturer, software engineer, philosopher, consultant
Roots: born in Sweden — lived also in Switzerland, USA, UK — mixed up genes from Sweden, Norway, India, Germany
Languages: French, English, Swedish, German, Portuguese, Latin, Ada, Perl, Java, assembly languages, Pascal, C/C++, etc.
Roles: entrepreneur, programme manager, methodology lead, quality and risk manager, writer, director of technology, project lead, solutions architect — as well as gardener, factory worker, farmhand, supermarket cleaner, programmer, student, teacher, language lawyer, traveller, soldier, lecturer, software engineer, philosopher, consultant
2003-May-11
Fixing command-H to hide Radio UserLand on MacOS X
Inspired by a recent MacOS X hint, I thought I had (finally) found a way to get Radio UserLand to properly recognize the keyboard equivalent that all MacOS X applications are expected to use as the menu choice "Hide <Application>" (command-H), according to Apple's Human Interface Guide. In a Terminal window, I ran the following command, on one line:
then, to activate the change: logout and login.
It didn't work.
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSUserKeyEquivalents '{"Hide Radio" = "@h";}'
then, to activate the change: logout and login.
It didn't work.
But Alan described a workaround that works. The trick is to create a new "Hide Radio" command in the "Tools" "Radio" menu of Radio UserLand (update: the "Tools" menu loses user-made changes between launches). Follow these steps:
- Opt-select any item in the
"Tools""Radio" menu to open the menu window. - Insert a child entry under
"Tools""Radio" and name it "Hide Radio" (or whatever you want). - Cmd-Enter on this line to open its script window.
- Enter this single line:
Frontier.hideApplication ()
- Close the script window.
- While the new command you just created is highlighted, click in the pop-up menu in the lower left-hand corner and select "Set Command Key..."
- Type the letter 'H' in the dialog window. Confirm.
- Close all the windows that opened.
- Press Cmd-hyphen to cause Radio to refresh its menus.
Alan adds a note: Cmd-H is originally assigned to "Replace and Find Next" and that command will no longer be invoked by Cmd-H (I never used it so it's not a problem for me).
Ditto.
The Wiki way
PC Magazine:
The past several years have seen many forms of collaborative electronic communication take shape. Some are based on instant messaging, others are e-mail-centric, still others rely on HTML-based content, and the list goes on. One form that is growing in popularity—though it doesn't yet have the star power of [w]eblogs, which have grown by several hundred percent this year—is the wiki. A wiki (derived from the Hawaiian term for quick) is essentially a small piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web content using any Web browser and no other special tools.Ward Cunningham is coauthor of The Wiki Way: Collaboration and Sharing on the Internet. The book comes with a CD-ROM for easy creation of a wiki on a Web server. To get started quickly, you could also use PhpWiki.
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