#Key commands in gravostyle 7 mac os x#
#Key commands in gravostyle 7 plus#
#Key commands in gravostyle 7 series#
#Key commands in gravostyle 7 windows#

He then opted for a different key symbol.

The development team originally went for their old Apple key, but Steve Jobs found it frustrating when 'apples' filled up the Mac's menus next to the key commands, because he felt that this was an over-use of the company logo. The Р В Р’В Р В РІР‚В Р В Р’В Р В РІР‚В°Р В РІР‚в„ўР вЂ™Р’В came into the Macintosh project at a late stage. The Macintosh keyboard's other unusual modifier key, the Option key, serves as a modifier both for entering keyboard shortcuts and for typing text-it is used to enter foreign characters, typographical symbols, and other nonstandard characters. (Indeed, the very first Macintosh lacked a Control key it was soon added to allow compatible terminal software.)

#Key commands in gravostyle 7 windows#

One advantage of this scheme, as contrasted with the Microsoft Windows mixed use of the Control and Alt keys, is that the Control key is reserved entirely for its original purpose: entering control characters in terminal applications. If an application needs more shortcuts than can be obtained with the twenty-six letters of the Latin alphabet, double modifiers such as Command+Option are used. A small set of shortcuts (such as cut and paste, open and save) are standard across nearly all applications, and many other shortcuts are standardized (Find, Show Fonts). The Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines have always recommended that developers use the Command key (and not the Control or Option keys) for this purpose. The Command key has a single purpose: allowing the user to enter keyboard shortcut commands to GUI applications.

#Key commands in gravostyle 7 mac os x#

FunctionР В Р’В Р Р†Р вЂљРЎСљР В РІР‚в„ўР вЂ™Р’В¬reating an alias under Mac OS X using the keys Р В Р’В Р В РІР‚В Р В Р’В Р В РІР‚В°Р В РІР‚в„ўР вЂ™Р’В + Р В Р’В Р В РІР‚В Р В Р’В Р В РІР‚В°Р В РЎС›Р РЋРІР‚в„ў In the US, the keyboard now uses the word 'command' in Europe, the word used now is 'cmd' printed on the key. The Apple symbol was removed in the keyboard's 2007 redesign, making room for the key's name to appear.

#Key commands in gravostyle 7 series#

(The Option key did not have a closed-Apple, probably because Apple II applications used the closed-Apple key much more rarely than the open-Apple key thus there was less need to keep it around.) Because any ADB keyboard could be used with the II GS, all of Apple's ADB keyboards-even those intended for the Mac-also required the open-Apple, and it stuck for more than twenty years, causing confusion long after the Apple II series went out of production. Apple changed the keys on the II GS's keyboard to Command and Option, as on Mac keyboards, but added an open-Apple to the Command key, for consistency with applications for previous Apple II generations. Like the newer Macintosh computers to come, such as the Macintosh SE, it used the new Apple Desktop Bus for its keyboard and mouse.

When the Macintosh was introduced in 1984, the keyboard had a single command key with a Saint John's Arms (also called a four leaf clover) symbol ( Р В Р’В Р В РІР‚В Р В Р’В Р В РІР‚В°Р В РІР‚в„ўР вЂ™Р’В, U+2318), because Steve Jobs said that showing the Apple logo throughout the menus as a keyboard shortcut was 'taking in vain.' Thus, the Р В Р’В Р В РІР‚В Р В Р’В Р В РІР‚В°Р В РІР‚в„ўР вЂ™Р’В appears in the Macintosh menus as the primary modifier key symbol. The Apple Lisa had only the closed Apple logo. In all these cases, the left Apple key had an outlined 'open' Apple logo, and the one on the right had an opaque, 'closed' or 'solid' Apple logo key. This allowed for flexible combinations of a modifier key and base key (such as Open-Apple with C for Copy) with just a few extra wires and no ROM changes, since the Apple II could only register one key press at a time (Shift and Control keys were handled in the keyboard encoding hardware which generated ASCII codes). Two other early Apple computers, the 1982 Apple IIe and the 1984 Apple IIc, also had two such keys, one to the left and one to the right of the space bar in these models, they mapped to the first two fire buttons of an attached joystick. The first model on which it appeared was the 1980 Apple III, where there are two Apple keys, both to the left of the space bar on the lowest row of the keyboard.

#Key commands in gravostyle 7 plus#

Apple's computers up through the 1979 Apple II Plus did not have a command key.