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andyoc
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Posted 11/4/2009 3:56 AM (GMT -6)

Does Finale support the "right-click" key on the keyboard

- the equivalent of mouse right-click?

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andyoc
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Posted 11/6/2009 2:17 PM (GMT -6)

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Mike Rosen
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Posted 11/6/2009 2:29 PM (GMT -6)

Not as far as I can tell.

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N. Grossingink
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Posted 11/6/2009 2:32 PM (GMT -6)

On a Macintosh, the "Control" key is the equivalent of "right click". Of course, on Windows, "Control" has a different function altogether.

Perhaps the "Keyboard Shortcuts" section of the Finale manual can answer your question. Why do you not want to use "right click"? Windows virtually invented the thing. It was only 3 or 4 years ago that Apple invented an alternative to their chintzy little one button mouses, uh… mice.

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Posted 11/6/2009 2:56 PM (GMT -6)

Meeses.

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SAJ
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Posted 11/6/2009 2:57 PM (GMT -6)

If you select the handle of a Finale object, like an articulation or an expression, and then press the right-click key, the same menu will open as if you had right-clicked on the handle with the mouse. However, the shortcut table in Help doesn't show any way to select a handle besides clicking on it, so you can't do everything just from the keyboard.

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Posted 11/6/2009 3:38 PM (GMT -6)

My keyboard doesn't have a right-click key--what's that?. A macro program like Quickeys or AutoHotKey will let you map a key to a right click, though, and Finale won't know the difference.

But since you're usually clicking on a particular spot on the screen and must move the mouse there anyway, this doesn't seem very useful.

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SAJ
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Posted 11/6/2009 4:10 PM (GMT -6)

Here I thought any Windows machine had this key. On my keyboard it's next to the right-hand Ctrl key, with an icon of a menu and the mouse arrow.

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Posted 11/6/2009 4:19 PM (GMT -6)

I do have that! I never knew what it was. Don't know that I'll have much use for it, though.

Finale strays from, or never caught up with, the standard Windows GUI. Multiple selection (Shift- or Ctrl-Click) works differently from other Windows programs.

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Posted 11/7/2009 4:17 AM (GMT -6)

N. Grossingink said...
Why do you not want to use "right click"? Windows virtually invented the thing. It was only 3 or 4 years ago that Apple invented an alternative to their chintzy little one button mouses, uh… mice.

How soon they forget.

There was support for 3-button mice on Xerox's original Alto (1973) and on Unix X11 (1987), way before right-click was introduced in Windows 95.
Apple finally capitulated from their single-button stance in 1997, allowing "contextual menus" which could be accessed by mice that had a 2nd button, or <ctrl><click> in OS 8.

I had assumed that there would be a keyboard button that would provide right-clicks on Windows. If there are any other buttons that you're not sure about: my advice is always to press them and see what happens!

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andyoc
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Posted 11/7/2009 5:27 AM (GMT -6)

N. Grossingink said...
Why do you not want to use [mouse] "right click"?

If you're in a keyboard sequence, it's quicker not to have to move your hand back to the mouse.
And the key is available permanently on any modern keyboard, if it is supported in the software.

If my memory serves me correctly, it was supported some versions ago - anyone remember?

Andy O'Callaghan
Sutton Sound Ltd.
Dublin
Rp of Ireland

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i7 / 9G / Vista Ultimate

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