Re: FLASH: shortcut key PROBLEM

[Frederico]

On 1/6/00 1:25 PM, Sarah Lamont via

slamont2mtc [dot] com

, said:


>if anyone has any other suggestions, I'm all ears.


Hi Sarah,


Are you using the USB keybaord, or an ADB version?


If USB, do you have all the proper USB extents and Input Sprockets 

enabled?


Do you have a graphics pad, or additional input peripheral (mouse, 

trackball, etc) in which you might have accidently remapped your FKeys 

away from Flash?


Are you on a G3 or a G4? If a G4, have you used the Keyboard control 

panel to remap your Fkeys for other functions?


Try this:


Open your Extensions Manager, save your current set to a name you can 

remember, then reset to Mac OS ALL, and Restart. Launch and test your 

FKeys in Flash.


Does this cure your issues?


SIDENOTE:  Since you are (I think) new to Macs, I want to stress that the 

commonly-known method of Rebuilding the Desktop (Restart-Command-Option) 

is *dangerous* and *wrong* (yes, I know that's how it says to do it in 

the halp manual, it's wrong and will be corrected soon).


You need to use a special extension set to properly Rebuild the DT, or 

use a utility to do it safely. It is also imperitive that you verify your 

Directory Structure (using Disk First Aid v8.5.5 or DiskWarrior 1.1, etc) 

*before* you Rebuild the DT.


Unless you know you did it correctly, I *strongly* advise you redo it 

*immediately*, else you may suffer data loss or other damage.


I wrote an article on the proper method and 'howto' published by my 

students here: 

<http://sciencequest.org/support/computers/mac/topics/dt_rebuild.html>, 

where you'll also find links to numerous other help and configuration 

articles that should help you run your pretty, new Mac.


Please feel free to contact me privately as you need to for any 

additional non-Flash related Mac queries.


HTH


Frederico


      ~Apple *is* Design.~


                  -- Rob Burgess  CEO Macromedia  5 January 2000


Think OS X -- Summer 2000




flasher is generously supported by...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  Streaming Media WEST '99 Conference & Exhibition

  "The Worlds largest Internet Audio & Video Event"

 December 7 - 9, San Jose Convention Center, California


Reserve your space today at http://www.streamingmedia.com

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  To unsubscribe or change your list settings go to

http://www.chinwag.com/flasher or email

helpchinwag [dot] com