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I do believe to avoid cross-platform confusion it is best to equate the COMMAND and the CONTROL buttons: which, of course, cuts down the number of 2 mod key combinations.

Oh, and while my Professor Stoyanka is imaginary. Docent Maria Schnitter and her MacBook at the University of Plovdiv and Dr Hristo Saldzhiev and his Windows 10 machine at Stara Zagora University are very real, and corresponding colleagues.

The latter of the 2 is more likely to happen. HOWEVER, as Shift+Ctrl+S is used across Mac, Win, & Linux for "save as . . ." (Shift+Ctrl+Alt+S being added in Windows in case users's fingers are so fat they splay over onto an Alt key . . . ROFL), I cannot see many Windows users jalousing at Shift+Ctrl...

Several other people have asked that: there has been no response.

I have done what I wanted: I was still concerned:

1. to make things not too difficult for end-users (that's why I dropped capslock).

2. not to screw up end-user's schemata for key combinations.

I don't think you can.

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Someone in a different universe stated that:

hope this won't be a problem when you use:
CTRL ALT SHIFT S in Windows.
Well, okay it will, as that's "Save as..."

This makes NO sense to me at all, as, as far as I understand "Save as . ." on Windows normally uses CTRL SHIFT, or F12.

I have tried all the 2 modifier keys combos I have not used, and they do NOT work, so: - if ctrlKey() is down and shiftkey() is down and altKey() is down then put numToCodePoint(122966) after fld "OOT" exit mouseUp end if if altKey() is down and shiftKey() is down then put numToCodePoint(122933) aft...

Thank you.

I tried Capslock and was not happy with that, hence . . .

AND the reason I was having a prob. with '6' was I have always felt the powerkey/command was 'off'.

To start with I am not 'calmed up'. 8) But several folk round these parts have started frothing at the mouth re using the capslock key as a modifier, and I can see why. Hav8ng tried it myself I am aware of its shortcomings. Oh, and re using ShiftLock: as I have no computrler built after 1989 woth th...

Yes, you are missing something (I couldn't give a toss about the key names):

How would a windows user feel about pressing 3 modifier keys at once?

I should warn everyone that hacking the Message Box stack in the way I suggested:

1. Raises the Message Box to a toplevel stack.

2. Stops it working almost completely.

I apologise to anyone who was daft enough to follow through with my suggestion.

cmd-opt-shift + key is not an uncommon construct in MacOS Indeed: and how would ctrl-alt-shift + key go down with Windows users? - Screenshot 2025-07-17 at 20.57.16.jpg - AND how am I to know if an end-user has some 'crappy' keyboard connected to their rig that prevents 2 or 3 mod keys at once? - M...