[awcopus]

My fiance works as a graphic designer at Random House, which just switched from OS 9 to OS X. Her major application is QuarkXPress and she is struggling to deal with the fact that whenever she hits Command-Tab, which used to enable her to quickly switch from one tool to another, now prompts her to switch applications.

Is it my imagination or has Panther made it impossible to customize the command-tab functionality? If you've figured out a way around this, I would be grateful if you would share it. Thank you muchly!

[gorickey]

Would this work for you?

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Originally posted by awcopus:
My fiance works as a graphic designer at Random House, which just switched from OS 9 to OS X. Her major application is QuarkXPress and she is struggling to deal with the fact that whenever she hits Command-Tab, which used to enable her to quickly switch from one tool to another, now prompts her to switch applications.

Is it my imagination or has Panther made it impossible to customize the command-tab functionality? If you've figured out a way around this, I would be grateful if you would share it. Thank you muchly!

Panther doesn't provide a way to do this (and considering the OS has reserved command-tab since OS 9, I really consider this Quark's issue) but there is a way to disable command-tab.

Check out the free PullTab.

Note. The above requires APE, a way of modifying the system, which I've personally found it to be safe and unproblematic. If the system does for some reason begin to act oddly, APE can be easily be turned off.

If your fiancee wants command-tab functionality back (with a different combo), she can additionally check out LiteSwitch ($15).

Hope this helps.

p.s. What dept. of Random House? I'm currently there as well.

[awcopus]

Thank you both for the heads up on LiteSwitch. She's at Çrown, btw. She has no problems with OS X, which we've been running at home for a good long while, but was blindsided by the loss of Command-Tab in Quark.

I'm going to try out LiteSwitch and see if it plays nicely with Panther before recommending it.

Thanks again for the help, guys.

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Originally posted by awcopus:
Thank you both for the heads up on LiteSwitch. She's at Çrown, btw. She has no problems with OS X, which we've been running at home for a good long while, but was blindsided by the loss of Command-Tab in Quark.

I'm going to try out LiteSwitch and see if it plays nicely with Panther before recommending it.

Thanks again for the help, guys.

Sure. I'm in the Art Dept. at Knopf/Vintage. They're about to -- at long last -- make the switch over to OS X over here... sometime next month.

Can't be soon enough.

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Oh, one more option. The quick dirty solution: option-command-tab will still switch tools in Quark, w/o interfering with Panther's command-tab.